What role do chloride ions have in the human body? This is a question for my pre-lab for chem class and we are supposed to do a internet search to find the answer, but I have searched and cant find the answer so I am hoping someone can help me here. Thanks.
2007-02-01 02:06:24 · 4 answers · asked by shomaliatimalla 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
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Concentrated sulphuric acid acting as an oxidising agent With fluoride or CHLORIDE IONS. Concentrated sulphuric acid isn't a strong enough oxidising agent to oxidise fluoride or chloride ions. In those cases, all you get produced are the steamy fumes of the hydrogen halide - hydrogen fluoride or hydrogen chloride.You can look at this another way - from the point of view of the halide ions. The fluoride and chloride ions aren't strong enough reducing agents to reduce the sulphuric acid.Whichever way you look at it, all you get is the hydrogen halide!That isn't true, though, with bromides and iodides.With bromide ionsThe bromide ions are strong enough reducing agents to reduce the concentrated sulphuric acid. In the process the bromide ions are oxidised to bromine.The bromide ions reduce the sulphuric acid to sulphur dioxide gas. This is a decrease of oxidation state of the sulphur from +6 in the sulphuric acid to +4 in the sulphur dioxide.You can combine these two half-equations to give the overall ionic equation for the reaction:
2007-02-01 02:12:09 · answer #1 · answered by Ex Head 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cl- ions help to keep the body's pH acceptable. There is a blood test called electrolytes that includes Na+, Cl-, K+, and CO2, all of these effect the pH level in the body
2007-02-01 02:10:40 · answer #2 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ions = a positive or negative charge on a element Molecules are the groups of particles joined to together Compounds is when the particles are fused together with covalent/ionic/metallic bonding
2016-05-24 01:41:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chloride is primarily (not exclusively) the counterion for the alkali metals and alkali earth metals (soluble ones) in our body. Sodium, potassium, soluble calcium, magnesium etc. all carry positive charges. SOMETHING has to counteract them, and it's usually chloride.
However, it is also transferred across membranes in several instances. The genetic failure to be able to do so causes cystic fibrosis.
Your stomach protonates it to make hydrochloric acid, which is in your stomach.
2007-02-01 02:12:38 · answer #4 · answered by fucose_man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋