Hydroxide ion

... -OH is called hydroxyl group but inorganic chem where mostly it forms ionic bond u can say hydroxide ion

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You should definitely not use the terms hydroxyl and hydroxide interchangeable. While hydroxide is an ion (it carries an electric charge), hydroxyl is the neutral form of the ion, that is neutral, has ...

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... trying to say was that in my book, they too used the word hydroxyl ion instead of hydroxide ion and that confused me. When I saw that someone on this forum used it, I thought ...

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... Sodium + chlorine forms sodium chloride; sodium + water forms sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. Sodium hydroxide is a metal hydroxide. Any of ... a similar hydroxide when placed in water. 2. If the element in combination with the hydroxide is a Group I or II element (first two columns on the ...

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... for the wonderful insight !!!!!!!! :) I just have a couple of questions: 1) What's a metal hydroxide? 2) How do you tell, just by looking at the molecular formula, that something is ...

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