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[keepSwimmingNemo]

a 1L beker is filled with 2 moles of liquid methanol and .25 moles of naCl. the ratio of ions to atoms is...

how come the methanol does not dissociate into ch3o- and h+? aren't they then ions?

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[aldol16]

What's the pKa of MeOH?

 

[keepSwimmingNemo]

What's the pKa of MeOH?

15.5

 

[aldol16]

Thus, is methanol going to dissociate? In other words, the pKa of water is 13-15 and water only negligibly auto-ionizes. Is methanol more or less likely to auto-dissociate?