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Hydrogen ion

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Hydrogen ion

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The terms hydrogen ion H+ and proton p are used synonymously in chemistry. A hydrogen ion is a negatively charged molecule. In particle physics, however, a proton is a submolecular and subatomic particle with a positive electric charge. The H+ ion has no electrons and is a bare charge with only about 1/64 000 of the radius of a hydrogen atom, and so is extremely reactive chemically with an extremely short lifetime in aqueous solutions, where it forms the hydronium ion H3O+, which in turn is further solvated by water molecules in clusters such as H5O2+ and H9O4+. The transfer of H+ in an acid–base reaction is referred to as proton transfer. The acid is the H+ donor and the base is the H+ acceptor.

Abbreviation: H+

Reference: Headrick JM, Diken EG, Walters RS, Hammer NI, Christie RA, Cui J, Myshakin EM, Duncan MA, Johnson MA, Jordan KD (2005) Spectral signatures of hydrated proton vibrations in water clusters. Science 308:1765–69.

Communicated by Gnaiger Erich 2020-12-02


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