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Acid Salts of Monobasic Organic Acids: a New Series of Primary Standards for Alkalimetry

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IT has long been known1–3 that most monobasic acids HX are capable, in suitable circumstances, of combining with their metallic salts MX to form ‘acid salts’; for example, of the type (MX)m(HX)n.

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SMITH, N. Acid Salts of Monobasic Organic Acids: a New Series of Primary Standards for Alkalimetry. Nature 170, 538–539 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170538a0

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