Question

How will you show that acetic acid is a monobasic acid?

Answer 1

yes ,of course it is a monobasic acid as it posseses only one replacable hydrogen atom per molecule.....

Answer 2

Explanation:

A monobasic acid is an acid which upon dissociation gives only one hydrogen ion or $H^{+}$ ion in an acid-base reaction.

For example, $CH_{3}COOH + NaOH \rightarrow CH_{3}COONa + H_{2}O$

Therefore, acetic acid also gives only one $H^{+}$ ion per molecule hence, it acts as a monobasic ion.