how are electrolytes formed and why are they important?
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Electrolytes are taken into the body through the foods that we eat, they aren't made by the body.  Electolytes are important because cells can manage the amount of water in the cells by moving the electolytes inside and outside the cells (the water molecules follow the electrolytes).  The main ones needed by the body are sodium, potassium, and chloride.
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Batteries are self-contained chemistry sets, and chilling a battery slows down the reactions within that are slowly breaking down the alkali fluid, thereby preserving the electrical charge longer.\n\nLet's learn about electricity. Electricity is energy released from electrons travelling between atoms. Electrons can travel through any medium (air = lightning, you = electrocution), but they like conductive metals like copper the best, where they travel in a circuit, or a giant circle, between their origin and their destination. Electrons are stored in a battery like a sponge holds excess moisture.\n\nWithin a battery is a chemical (usually an alkali or an isotope-based solution) that retains electrons within like a sponge. Let's just say that battery fluid has properties about it that make it great for retaining excess electrons.\n\nWhen you chill a battery, you slow down the breakdown of the chemical within the battery housing (it will eventually break down into water + a precipitate), thereby preserving the charge that stores electrons. \n\nAnd remember, electrons in motion = electricity.
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in electrochemical cells we have chemical reaction . since conversion of this chemical energy to electric energy is mainly becoz of combination of ions ..we hav electric on account of this chemical energy till we have free ions to combine once all ions of solution combines  no more energy conversion is there
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well without it their cells would shrivel up and die...\n\nwater is essential to dissolve most minerals and compounds in because it is a polar molecule and things are easily dissolved in it. the body takes advantage of these properties of water and our living system is based off of the properties of water and most of our bodies are actually made up of water.
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so that it gets ionised during electrolysis and the ions help in the conduction of electricity....
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Well, obviously the donation of electrons from + to - atoms. Also, ionic compounds are soluble in water. Since ionic interactions are weak, they are weakly bound together.
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Always remember that salts are formed by ions:\n\nCommon salt-forming cations include:\n\nammonium NH4+ \ncalcium Ca2+ \niron Fe2+ and Fe 3+ \nmagnesium Mg2+ \npotassium K+ \npyridinium C5H5NH+ \nquaternary ammonium NR4+ \nsodium Na+\n\nCommon salt-forming anions (and the name of the parent acids in parentheses) include:\n\nacetate CH3COO− (acetic acid) \ncarbonate CO32− (carbonic acid) \nchloride Cl− (hydrochloric acid) \ncitrate HOC(COO−)(CH2COO−)2 (citric acid) \ncyanide C≡N− (hydrogen cyanide) \nhydroxide OH− (water) \nnitrate NO3− (nitric acid) \nnitrite NO2− (nitrous acid) \noxide O2− (water) \nphosphate PO43− (phosphoric acid) \nsulfate SO42− (sulfuric acid)
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That would be acetic acid, which is C2H4O2 or CH3COOH (whichever way your book writes it). The main reason is that strong acids are strong electrolytes. Strong electrolytes are electrolytes that exist in solution almost entirely as ions (when dissolved, they break up into separate ions). NaCl would separate into Na+ ions and Cl- ions. However, a molecule, such as acetate wouldn't break up into ions, but would go into the solution as a molecule.
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Because they would react with the water used in the electrolyte!
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In chemistry, a salt is any ionic compound composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. These ions can be inorganic (Cl−) as well as organic (CH3COO−) and monoatomic (F−) as well as polyatomic ions (SO42−).\n\nSalts are formed when acids and bases react.\n\nSolutions of salts in water are called electrolytes. Electrolytes as well as molten salts conduct electricity.\n\nZwitterions are salts that contain an anionic center and a cationic center in the same molecule; examples include amino acids, many metabolites, peptides and proteins.\n\nMixtures of many different ions in solution like in the cytoplasm of cells, in blood, urine, plant saps and mineral waters usually do not form defined salts after evaporation of the water. Therefore, their salt content is given for the respective ions.
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Well, Na+ and Cl- are very important in the human body, as well as other ions like Ca2+, K-, etc. It's important in cell to maintain an osmotic pressure inside the cell (so that it doesn't loose or gain too much water). It is also important in the transportation of molecules to the inside the cell.  That's all I can think of at the moment.
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I'll make it easy for you.All the metals forms positive ions by losing electrons and all non-metals form negative ions by gaining electrons.\nExample:- NaCl  Na+ & Cl-
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You get the first answered.\nCovalent bonds are strong and don't disassociate into ions, as ionic bonds do. Watch.\nNaCl common salt, sodium and chlorine, put in solution.\n\nNa+  and Cl- they disassociate and you can follow the path of electricity Electron jumps from sodium to be accepted by chlorine. That is electron flow; conduction of electricity.
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Sodium bicarbonate in solid form is a poor conductor.    However, it will ionize when dissolved in water and conduct electricity then.
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Most acids form ions in solutions by _protolysis_ (transferring a hydrogen ion to the solvent), and most bases form ions in solution by disassociation (if they contain OH-ions) or by accepting a hydrogen ion from the solvent.\n\nExample: Na3PO4 + H2O --> 3 Na+ +HPO4(2-) + OH-
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Electrolytes are pretty much any chemical that dissociates when in solution; strong electrolytes completely dissociate and th weak ones don't.\nStrong: (water soluable salts) \nEx1.\nSodium Chloride (table salt) in water\n      H20\nNaCl -----> Na+(aq) + Cl-(aq)\n\nHydrochloric acid in water\n\n      H2O\nHCl  -----> H+(aq) + Cl-(aq)\n\nWeak: (molecular substances)\n\nEx2.\nAmmonium in water\n                (equilibrium arrows)\nNH3(aq) + H2O(l) -----> NH4+(aq) + OH-(aq)\n                                <----- \nHydrofluoric acid would be a weak one too b/c it acts more like a molecule than ions.\n\nOn a side note, you could look at the side of an energy drink label (like PowerAid or Gatoraid)- these are essentialy electrolytes solutions that are colored (and they taste pretty good too) \nHope this helps.
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Salt (or more specifically, Sodium Chloride salt) is a strong electrolyte, meaning that when dissolved in water it will completely break up into ions (Na+ and Cl- ions).\n\nPure water, by itself, does not conduct electricity, but when you dissolve an electrolyte in it, an electric current can pass through the solution.\n\nIn order for a electric current to flow there must be charge carriers which can move.  Pure water does not have these charge carriers, but after a salt is dissolved and ions are present in solution, the solution becomes conductive.