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Complete the following equation that illustrates a Bronsted Lowry acid-base reaction. Phases are optional. HCl + NH3 --->
In 1923, a Danish chemist, named Johannes Bronsted, and British scientist, Thomas Lowry, both independently proposed a different definition of acid. They said that an acid should be any substance that can donate a proton. In this case, a proton is just a hydrogen atom that has lost its electron to become a positively charged ion of H+. This definition of an acid is now called a Bronsted-Lowry acid.