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Meg Osterby

Which is the stronger base between NaOH and CsOH?

Brighton Munezi  Follow

well there is a difference between Caesium hydroxide & sodium hydroxide so .

A) Caesium hydroxide (CsOH) is a chemical compound consisting of caesium ions and hydroxide ions. It is a strong base (pKb=-1.76), much like the other alkali metal hydroxides such as sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide. In fact, caesium hydroxide is powerful enough to quickly corrode through glass.

B) A strong base is something like sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide which is fully ionic. You can think of the compound as being 100% split up into metal ions and hydroxide ions in solution. Each mole of sodium hydroxide dissolves to give a mole of hydroxide ions in solution

And if you take a good look at differences between them you can tell very clearly which one is strong based .

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David Colasante  Follow

First, I am guessing that you mean CsOH (cesium hydroxide). Assuming this is so, in both cases (CsOH and NaOH), the base part is the same, hydroxide (OH-). Both compounds are very soluble in water (CsOH, 30.3 g/100 g water, NaOH, ~100 g / 100 g water. If you make saturated solutions of these two compounds, there will be more base available in the NaOH solution simply because of the difference in solubility and this might make the NaOH solution more basic because a higher concentration of OH- can be achieved but at equal concentrations (well, equal activities), no difference.

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