Chemistry: anhydrides, acid or base

Tutoring chemistry, the term anhydride may pop up.

An anhydride is a molecule that results from the removal of water.

An acid anhydride will assume its acidic tendency if water is added. Nonmetal oxides typically are acid anhydrides – for example, SO3:

SO3 + H2O → H2SO4

Metal oxides are typically base anhydrides:

CaO + H2O → Ca2+ + 2OH

Source:

Mortimer, Charles E. Chemistry, sixth ed. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1986.

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