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In other words, the basic substance furnishes a pair of electrons for a chemical bond, the acid substance accepts such a pair.

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.

We are inclined to think of substances as possessing acid or basic properties, without having a particular solvent in mind.

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