Why are alkaline solutions called “bases”? What’s “basic” about them?
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The term “base” was coined for these chemicals by Chemists like Georg Ernst Stahl, Robert Boyle und Guillaume François Rouelle, because they used these nonvolatile things to “fix” volatile acids and stop them from being corrosive. They didn’t understand the mechanism behind it yet, they imagined it works like putting the instable acid on a solid base so it stays stable.
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