[Lauren S]

Hi all,
I have a Chemistry lab due for AP Chem and there is one Post-Lab questions that reads:
Write separate equations for each unknown potassium salt dissolving in water and for the ionization reaction of the weak acid anion that each of these salts contains. (See equations 7 and .
Link for the lab:
home.comcast.net/~christylthomas/Kaweakacidlab10.pdf

I've conquered the rest of the problems but for this one I'm not even sure where to start. If anyone could give it a shot or point me in the right direction, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Lauren

[ramboacid]

Write separate equations for each unknown potassium salt dissolving in water and for the ionization reaction of the weak acid anion that each of these salts contains.

Can you do the first part? As these are ionic compounds, they split up into their anion and cation in water. An example for table salt (NaCl) is
NaCl Na⁺ + Cl^-

The same logic should apply for the second part: you can think of H⁺ as the cation.