• uphillbothways@kbin.social
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    https://wiki.c2.com/?HydrogenHydroxide

    Hydrogen Hydroxide
    Water.
    Specifically, water reacting as a base. When reacting as an acid its systematic name is Hydroxic Acid.
    Oddly enough, water can be considered a molecule (H2O), or an ion group (H+ and OH-). Once I got that through my skull, the whole acid/base mess got much clearer.

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      It is not reacting as an acid here, it is both at once.

      And that was not even the point.