In this chapter, you will learn about the qualitative and quantitative aspects of acids and bases. The chapter describes how these two classes of compounds ionize or dissociate in water. You will learn how pH is used to describe the concentration of acidic and basic solutions. Three theories will add to your understanding of the properties of acids and bases. The chapter ends by showing that the dissociation of an acid or base into ions involves the establishment of an equilibrium.

In this chapter, you will learn: to describe the properties of acids and bases to convert hydrogen- or hydroxide-ion concentrations into values of pH to identify conjugate acid-base pairs to calculate an acid dissociation constant (Ka) to arrange acids and bases by strength according to their dissociation constants