Jennifer KingPeriod 3April 28, 2001 Acids and Bases Modern understanding of acids and bases began with the discovery in 1834 by the English physicist Michael Faraday that acids, bases, and salts are electrolytes. That is, when they are dissolved in water, they produce a solution that contains charged particles, or ions, and can conduct an electric current ionization. In 1884 the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius (and later Wilhelm Ostwald, a German chemist) proposed that an acid be defined as …showed first 75 words of 741 total…

…showed last 75 words of 741 total…does no! t require the formation of a salt or of acid-base conjugate pairs. Thus, ammonia is viewed as a base because it can donate an electron pair to the acid boron trifluoride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Bibliographyhttp://click.hotbot.com/director.asp?id=2&target=http://library.advanced.org/10429/low/acidbase/acidbase.htm&query=acids+and+bases&rsource=LCOSDHhttp://www.unmc.edu/PharmSciences/wwwcourse/acbase/index.htmhttp://antoine.fsu.umd.edu/chem/senese/101/acidbase/faq/bronsted-definition.shtml