An important feature of the Brønsted-Lowry concept is the idea that the product formed when an acid gives up a proton is a potential proton acceptor and is called the conjugate base of the parent acid.acid1 and base1 are a conjugate acid/base pair or conjugate pairSimilarly, every base accepts a proton to produce a conjugate acid That is,When these two processes are combined, the result is an acid/base, or neutralization, reaction: