A salt containing an ionizable hydrogen atom. Acidic salt does not necessarily produce acidic solutions.
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Lewis Acid
Any species that can accept a share in an electron pair.
Disproportionation Reactions
Redox reactions in which the oxidizing agent and the reducing agent are the same species.
Deposition
The direct solidification of a vapor by cooling, the reverse of sublimation.
Net Ionic Equation
Equation that results from canceling spectator ions and eliminating brackets from a total ionic equation.
Critical Mass
The minimum mass of a particular fissionable nuclide in a given volume required to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.
Domain
A cluster of atoms in a ferromagnetic substance, all of which align in the same direction in the presence of an external magnetic field.
Associated Ions
Short-lived species formed by the collision of dissolved ions of opposite charges.
Heavy Water
Water containing deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen.
Crystal Lattice Energy
Amount of energy that holds a crystal together, the energy change when a mole of solid is formed from its constituent molecules or ions (for ionic compounds) in their gaseous state.
Bronsted-Lowry Acid
A proton donor.
