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You know the bottles of sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid that laboratories have, for example if i react one of those bottles with some propene, are those bottles an aqeuos solution of acid and therefore have dissociated acid molecules or are they anhydrous. i know in this reaction you add water and heat so clearly water can't be supplied from the acid
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Yes, those bottles of sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid are aqueous solutions of the respective acids. In these solutions, the acid molecules have dissociated into hydrogen ions (H+) and the corresponding anions (e.g., sulfate ions for sulfuric acid or phosphate ions for phosphoric acid). When you react one of these solutions with propene, the water present in the solution is used up in the reaction (propene + H2O -----→ isopropanol). Therefore, it is necessary to add water to the reaction mixture to ensure that there is enough water available for the reaction to proceed smoothly.
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