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Can an acid react with an acid?
can a base with a base?

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acids can react with other acids. Acid-base reactions are possible between a strong acid and a weak acid (which acts as a base), but generally these happen with weak acids that aren’t often called acids. Water, amides, alcohols, and phenols are some compounds that can act as acids under some conditions but which will act as bases to react with a strong acid. Two compounds with comparable acidity, such as hydrochloric acid and hydrobromic acid, won’t undergo this kind of reaction.

Some organic acids are also flammable, so reaction with strong oxidizers (like sulfuric acid) may also be able to set them on fire. Other than the initial oxidation this would be a normal combustion reaction involving oxygen, rather than a reaction between the two acids.

, if you used, one of these bases with another base, it may react, but the first base would actually be acting as an acid, that is one is strond base and other is weak base


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