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Acidic properties

In aqueous solution phosphoric acid behaves as a triprotic acid.

The difference between successive p K values is sufficiently large so that salts of either monohydrogen phosphate, HPO 2− 4 or dihydrogen phosphate, H PO − 4, can be prepared from a solution of phosphoric acid by adjusting the pH to be mid-way between the respective p K values.