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Conjugate base

In the field of chemistry, in the Brønsted-Lowry (protonic) theory of acids and bases, a conjugate base is the basic member, X^-, of a pair of two compounds that transform into each other by gain or loss of a proton. The acid produced, HX, is called the conjugate acid.

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