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What are the simplest ions of hydrogen?
Show their reaction with water.

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Probably you mean H+ ion. It cannot exist as such in an aqueous liquid phase, because it is a very strong Lewis acid (electron lone pair acceptor), owing to the fact that its 1s orbital is empty. So, in the presence of water, it accepts a lone pair from the oxygen atom of H2O, thus forming a dative bond and producing an H3O+ ion, known as hydroxonium ion or hydronium ion. This is the ordinary form under which H+ ion is present in water and aqueous solutions.

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