this is for all the chemistry geeks out there
Saw a post with Girlfriend changed and it reminded me of this! My friend sent me it a while ago!!
Hope it hasnt been posted
p.s sorry about the typo in the title
DEPROTONATEDBased on “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne
(…now don’t tell me I’m not modern enough!)
Chill out, hydrogen chloride:
You're on the acidic side,
You can turn blue litmus paper red,
So it’s said;
With base, you can neutralise,
Water makes you ionise
’Cos you lose a hydrogen ion
And you become
Cl- and H3O+
Your pH is low, ‘cos in H2O
You deprotonate - H+ you donate, you see…
Tell me,
Why d'you have to go and get so deprotonated?
I see the way you're
Split into your ions and you're fully dissociated,
You're low pH and
It's because your H+ you donate to a base, and you're great as a proton donor -
You're a strong acid 'cos your H+ is so concentrated...oh, oh
When you become aqueous,
You're then all plus and minus -
The reaction goes to completion;
In solution,
Water's weakly basic, so
That's where all your protons go:
They join to make hydroxonium
And you become
Cl- and H3O+
Your pH is low, ‘cos in H2O
You deprotonate - H+ you donate, you see…
Tell me,
Why d'you have to go and get so deprotonated?
I see the way you're
Split into your ions and you're fully dissociated,
You're low pH and
It's because your H+ you donate to a base, and you're great as a proton donor -
You're a strong acid 'cos your H+ is so concentrated...oh, oh, oh…
Chill out, hydrogen chloride:
You've been completely ionised,
And by your conjugate acid and base
You’ve been replaced:
Cl- and H3O+
Your pH is low, ‘cos in H2O
You deprotonate - H+ you donate, you see…
Tell me,
Why d'you have to go and get so deprotonated?
I see the way you're
Split into your ions and you're fully dissociated,
You're low pH and
It's because your H+ you donate to a base, and you're great as a proton donor -
You're a strong acid 'cos your H+ is so concentrated...oh, oh…