The concept of acid and base can be well understood from the Bronsted-Lowry concept of Amphoteric compounds. HCl and Cl- form the conjugate acid-base pair in example 1 seen above because they differ in protons. Similarly, another conjugate acid-base pair also produced NH4+ and NH3 for example 2.
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