What is the most powerful acid?
Fluoroantimonic acid
Fluoroantimonic acid
Fluoroantimonic acid is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula H
2FSbF
6 (also written H
2F[SbF
6], 2HF·SbF5, or simply HF-SbF5).  It is an extremely strong acid, easily qualifying as a superacid.  The Hammett acidity function, H0, has been measured for different ratios of HF:SbF5.   While the H0 of pure HF is −15, addition of just 1mol % of SbF5 lowers it to around −20.  However, further addition of SbF5 results in rapidly diminishing returns, with the H0 reaching −21 at 10mol %.  The use of an extremely weak base as indicator shows that the lowest attainable H0, even with > 50mol % SbF5, is somewhere between −21 and −23.[1][2][3]