2007-09-21 14:50:06 · 4 answers · asked by uberifrit 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
In a solution of water, H+ is just a shorthand way of writing H3O+, which is more accurate as it describes that other water molecules will closely associate with it at all times. Either way you write it, it's the H+ part that's doing the reacting.
In air or vacuum, H+ can exist by itself, as a bare proton, I don't know about H3O+.
2007-09-21 15:29:45 · answer #1 · answered by bagalagalaga 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
H+ by itself is merely a proton, H3O is deutrium, aka heavy water. H30 occurs rarely, but does occur in large bodies of water, and it has a very short lifespan since H3O is extremely ionic and thus is easily attracted to hydroxide ions, OH-...
but then again it looks like you wrote "h" "three" "zero" and I think that might be a big pile of 30 protons, which could possibly form inside of a powerful vacuum under intense heat with astronomical amounts of pressure, like maybe inside of a certain size star.
2007-09-21 15:01:07 · answer #2 · answered by cowboydanimal 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In water as solute, yes. While H2O dissociates into H+ and OH-, the H+ stabilizes its charge by bonding with an undissociated water molecule, which becomes H3O+.
2007-09-21 14:54:56 · answer #3 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think so. H^+ is a hydrogen ion and H30^+ is a hydronium ion.
2007-09-21 14:52:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋