#hydronium

Hydronium

Aqueous cation H₃O⁺, the type of oxonium ion produced by protonation of water

In chemistry, hydronium is the cation [H3O]+, also written as H3O+, the type of oxonium ion produced by protonation of water. It is often viewed as the positive ion present when an Arrhenius acid is dissolved in water, as Arrhenius acid molecules in solution give up a proton to the surrounding water molecules. In fact, acids must be surrounded by more than a single water molecule in order to ionize, yielding aqueous H+ and conjugate base.

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