By 
Charles Morton
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TED-Ed Original

The strengths and weaknesses of acids and bases

Vinegar may have a powerful smell but did you know it's actually a weak acid? In the chemical economy acids actively give away their protons while bases actively collect them -- but some more aggressively than others. George Zaidan and Charles Morton use the currency of subatomic particles to explain this unseen exchange.

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