Many acids, however, are able to furnish more than one proton per molecule; these are known as polyprotic acids.
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Polyprotic
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3 translations across 3 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- meerwaardig adj (able to donate more than one proton)
Hungarian
1 entries- többértékű adj (able to donate more than one proton)
Italian
1 entries- poliprotico adj (able to donate more than one proton)
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Some important acids, such as sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄) and phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄) can furnish more than one proton and are called polyprotic acids.
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Carbonic acid from CO₂ and amino acids from proteins are examples of polyprotic acids—those having more than one acidic proton.
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