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JeffEvarts
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A question about an anhydride that has nothing to to with acetic acid! How novel!
I am not entirely sure I understand what an anhydride is.
I found a reference to disulfuric acid, H2S2O7, and thought "Ah! Sulfuric Anhydride", but when I went to my other references, specifically the oxoacid entry on wikipedia, they listed SO3 as the anhydride.
I get it to one of three possibilities:
1) The anhydride is what you get when you take water out of the acid (SO3)
2) The anhydride is what you get when you link two acid residues via an oxygen (H2S2O7)
3) The anhydride of something without a C-O-H group (such as H2SO4) does not exist, so the question is moot
What sayeth the authorities?
-Jeff Evarts
I am not entirely sure I understand what an anhydride is.
I found a reference to disulfuric acid, H2S2O7, and thought "Ah! Sulfuric Anhydride", but when I went to my other references, specifically the oxoacid entry on wikipedia, they listed SO3 as the anhydride.
I get it to one of three possibilities:
1) The anhydride is what you get when you take water out of the acid (SO3)
2) The anhydride is what you get when you link two acid residues via an oxygen (H2S2O7)
3) The anhydride of something without a C-O-H group (such as H2SO4) does not exist, so the question is moot
What sayeth the authorities?
-Jeff Evarts