Look around you and every liquid you see will probably be either an acid or a base. The only...
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Acids and Bases
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Look around you and every liquid you see will probably be either an acid or a base.
The only exception would be distilled water. Distilled water is just water. That’s it.
Most water you drink has ions in it It is those ions which make something
acidic or basic
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In your body the are small compounds called Amino acids. These are acids
In fruits there is something called Citric Acid.
Baking soda is a base
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Scientists use something called the pH scale to measure how acidic or basic a liquid is.
The scale goes from 0 -14. Distilled water is 7
Acids are found between 0-7 Bases are from 7-14
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Most of the liquids you find everyday have a pH near “7”, either a little below, or a little above.
When you start looking at the pH of chemicals the numbers go to the extremes
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If you ever go into a chemistry lab, you could find solutions with a pH of “1” and others with a pH of 14.
Those chemicals are very dangerous.
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Acid – a solution that has an excess of H+. It comes from the Latin word “acidus” which means “sharp”
Base – a solution that has an excess of OH-. Another word for base is alkali
Aqueous – a solution which is mainly water Strong acid – an acid which has a very low
pH Strong Base – a base which has a very high
pH
Names to Know
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Weak acid – an acid that only partially ionizes in an aqueous solution. That means not every molecule breaks apart. They usually have a pH close to 7 (3-6)
Neutral – a solution which has a pH of 7. It is neither acidic or basic
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Acids are compounds which break into hydrogen ions and another compound when placed in an aqueous solution
Bases are compounds which break up into hydroxide ions and another compound when placed in an aqueous solution
What really happens…
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If you have an ionic compound and you put it into water it will break apart into two ions. If one of those ions is H+ the solution is acidic
If one of the ions is OH- the solution is basic There are other ionds which make acidic
and basic solutions, but we aren’t going to worry about them now
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The pH scale is actually a measure of the number of H+ ions in a solution. If there are a lot of H+ ions, the pH is very low.
If there are a lot of OH- ions, that means the number of H+ ions is very low, so the pH is high.
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Neutralization is a chemical reaction between an acid and a base that produces water and salt
Neutralization reactions are a special case of double displacement reactions
Neutralization