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Tellurous acid

Tellurous acid

Chemical compound

Tellurous acid is an inorganic compound with the formula H2TeO3. It is the oxoacid of tellurium(IV).[2] This compound is not well characterized. An alternative way of writing its formula is (HO)2TeO. In principle, tellurous acid would form by treatment of tellurium dioxide with water, that is by hydrolysis. The related conjugate base is well known in the form of several salts such as potassium hydrogen tellurite, KHTeO3.

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Properties

In contrast to the analogous compound selenous acid, tellurous acid is only metastable. Most tellurite salts contain the TeO2−
3 ion. Oxidation of its aqueous solution with hydrogen peroxide gives the tellurate ion. It is usually prepared as an aqueous solution where it acts as a weak acid.[1][3]

H2TeO3 + H2O ⇌ H3O+ + HTeO−
3 Ka1 = 2×10−3
HTeO−
3 + H2O ⇌ H3O+ + TeO2−
3 Ka2 = 1×10−8

References

  1. [1]
    Catherine E. Housecroft; Alan G. Sharpe (2008). "Chapter 16: The group 16 elements". Inorganic Chemistry (3rd ed.). Pearson. p. 524. ISBN 978-0-13-175553-6.
  2. [2]
    Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.
  3. [3]
    "Ionization Constants for Weak Acids". www.austincc.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-10-20.


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