Oxalic Acid Structure(C2H2O4)

What is Oxalic Acid?

Oxalic acid is a dicarboxylic acid. This means in Oxalic Acid two carboxylic acids are connected to each other with a single covalent bond. It is a crystalline white power and its solution is colorless in nature. Its structure is HCOOH-HCOOH, and its condensed form is, C2H2O4. The image added below shows the crystalline form and colorless solution of the oxalic acid....

Oxalic Acid Formula

Oxalic acid is a strong dicarboxylic acid in nature which is much more acidic in than acetic acid. Oxalic Acid contains Carbon(C), Hydrogen(H), and Oxygen(O) in the ratio of 1:1:2. It is the simplest dicarboxylic acid containing only two carboxylic acids directly bonded to each other at carbon atoms, i.e. (COOH) groups. The chemical formula of Oxalic Acid is HOOC-COOH, and it is also represented as (COOH)2 or C2H2O4....

Molar Mass of Oxalic Acid

Molar Mass is the total mass of the molecule present in a one-mole substance and is equivalent to the atomic weight of the substance. Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen have molar masses of 12 gm/mole, 1 gm/mole, and 16 gm/mole respectively, and one molecule of oxalic acid contains two atoms of Carbon, two atoms of Hydrogen, and four atoms of Oxygen. Thus the molar mass of oxalic acid is 2×12 + 2×1 + 4×16 i.e.,  90 grams per mole....

Equivalent Weight of Oxalic Acid

Equivalent weight of hydrated Oxalic acid (C2H2O4 .2H2O) is 126 amu (90 + 2×18) and the valency (number of hydrogen ions released by it when dissociated) is 2. It is also called the basicity of Oxalic Acid. Thus, the basicity of Oxalic Acid is 2....

Oxalic Acid Structure(C2H2O4)

Oxalic acid is a dicarboxylic acid and its structure consist of two -COOH group attached together as shown in the diagram added below,...

Preparation of Oxalic Acid(C2H2O4)

Although oxalic acid is readily available in nature and can be extracted from different means, but also oxalic acid can be made in the laboratory by oxidizing sucrose with nitric acid in the presence of a small amount of vanadium pentoxide as a catalyst. The hydrated solid can be dehydrated by heat or azeotropic distillation....

Properties of Oxalic Acid

Basic properties of the Oxalic acid is added in the table below,...

Chemical Reactions

Various chemical reactions of oxalic acid include,...

Oxalic Acid Uses

Various uses of the Oxalic Acid are added below:...

Oxalic Acid Health Hazards

Oxalic Acid has very serious health implications for the human body. Some of the health implications of Oxalic acid are,...

Oxalic Acid FAQs

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