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Water Reactions
« on: July 20, 2007, 09:49:55 PM »
Why is it that when SO3 is added to water the pH decreases?

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Re: Water Reactions
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2007, 10:22:36 PM »
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Google/check wikipedia before posting in the future. You should have combined both your questions about substances reacting with water into 1 topic.

When you dissolve sulfur trioxide in water you get H2SO4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_trioxide#Chemical_reactions
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