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Why can you find more salts than acids in nature?

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Why can you find more salts than acids in nature?

Salts are more chemically stable

Acids are usually kept in Chemistry labs

Because there is so much water in the oceans

The chemical industry's largest byproducts are salts

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  1. A) they are more stable.  But, I'm not sure that's why there are more of them, but it is why they are more likely to be encountered in nature.

    Acids are generally considered (in the Arrhenius definition at least) to consist of a positive hydrogen ion combined with a negative ion.  

    However, every acid can form many different salts by replacing the hydrogen ion with any other positive ion.  So each acid, even organic acids, can form more than one salt.


  2. natural salts are easier to be made since it's possible to produce sodium, potassium salts, nitrates, sulphates, oxides and hydroxides.

    Acids in nature are weak acids and there are actually very few weak acids in the world.

  3. salts are more stable

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