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So if we are looking at amphiprotic species, we can break this down to help us remember what this term means.
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So protic here just means a proton, which in our case is going to be an h plus ion.
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If we think about the word amphi, it's very similar to the word ambi.
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And if you think about ambidextrous, that means that you are both right and left handed, or you can use both equally.
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So in the context of hydrogen ions, we should be thinking about acids.
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So amphiprotic species are acids that can act both as bases and as acids.
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So what does that mean? so an amphiprotic species tends to be anything with more than one hydrogen, right, that it can give away or take.
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So an acid is something that can give away a hydrogen ion, a base is something that can receive it.
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And so if we look at the equation here, the balanced reaction, for the most part, most of our acids and bases are weak acids and bases...