What is bronsted lowry concept of acid and base?
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The Bronsted-Lowry theory enlarges the number of compounds considered to be acids and bases to include not only the neutral molecules (e.g., sulphuric, nitric, and acetic acids, and the alkali metal hydroxides) but also certain atoms and molecules with positive and negative electrical charges (cations and anions). The ammonium ion, the hydronium ion, and some hydrated metal cations are considered acids. The acetate, phosphate, carbonate, sulphide, and halogen ions are considered bases
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Brønsted-Lowry theory, also called proton theory of acids and bases, a theory, introduced independently in 1923 by the Danish chemist Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and the English chemist Thomas Martin Lowry, stating that any compound that can transfer a proton to any other compound is an acid, and the compound that accepts the proton is a base. A proton is a nuclear particle with a unit positive electrical charge; it is represented by the symbol H+ because it constitutes the nucleus of a hydrogen atom.