commercially available forms of EDTA are the free acid form, H4Y • it is in the form of the disodium salt, Na2H2Y.2H2O. Why

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commercially available forms of EDTA are the free acid form, H4Y
• it is in the form of the disodium salt, Na2H2Y.2H2O. Why? 

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