🧪Acid vs Salt🧂
Acids and salts are connected: react an acid with a base and one of the products is a salt.
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🧪Acid
- ✓Donates H+ ions in solution
- ✓Has a pH below 7
- ✓Sour taste, corrosive to metals
- ✓A reactant in neutralization
- ✓Examples: HCl, sulfuric acid, nitric acid
🧂Salt
- ✓An ionic compound of a cation and anion
- ✓Usually has a neutral pH
- ✓Formed when an acid is neutralized
- ✓A product of acid-base reactions
- ✓Examples: sodium chloride, potassium nitrate
Verdict
An acid is a proton-donating reactant; a salt is the neutral ionic product that forms when an acid reacts with a base. Acids start the reaction, salts finish it.
Frequently asked
How is a salt formed from an acid?+
When an acid reacts with a base, the acid's anion joins the base's cation to form a salt.
Are all salts neutral?+
Most are near neutral, but some salts are slightly acidic or basic depending on their ions.
What is the other product with a salt?+
Neutralizing an acid with a base usually also produces water.
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