Properties of Acids and Bases

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• What are the properties of acids?
• What are some examples of the properties of acids?
• What are some examples of the properties of bases?
• What are the properties of bases?
• How do acids and bases affect pH?
• What are 3 properties of acids?
• What are common properties of bases?
• What are physical properties of bases?
• What are physical properties of acids?
• Why can acids conduct electricity?
• Do bases have a sour taste?
• Why do acids change blue litmus to red?
• Do bases change blue litmus to red?
• Do bases react with active metals to produce hydrogen?
• How is hydronium ion concentration used to classify a solution as neutral, acidic or basic?
• What is rancidification? How does baking soda stop the smells of rancidification?
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• In a titration with a strong acid and weak base, where is the equivalence point?
• What will happen to the strength of an acid or base if you add water to the solution?
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• Are carboxylic acids strong?
• Which of the following are strong acids: H2SO4, HI, HF, H3PO3, and HNO3?
• What makes a strong acid strong?
• What alterations would have to be made for a solution of a weak acid to have a lower pH than a solution of a strong acid?
• What are the properties of strong acids?
• Why does a strong acid have a weak conjugate base, whereas a weak acid has a relatively strong conjugate base?
• Why are strong acids and bases also strong electrolytes?
• How do the Ka values for weak and strong acids compare?
• What are weak and strong acids?
• What makes an acid strong and what makes a base strong?
• Why is acetic acid a weak acid?
• What is an example of a diagnostic test that can be done to distinguish between strong acids and weak acids?
• What are examples of strong acids and bases, weak acids and bases, and neutral substances according to the pH scale?
• Where do strong acids and bases fall on the pH scale?
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• Why do basic solutions contain some H+ ions?
• How should acids and water be mixed?
• What is the difference between weak acids and strong acids?
• What are ''fuming" acids'?
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• What are the strongest acid and strongest base that can exist in water?
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• What is the colour of #"methyl orange"# in basic solution?
• When is an aqueous solution basic? What pH?
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• Why do bases feel slippery?
• How do all bases feel?
• Why do bases feel slick in nature?
• What are 10 common household bases?
• What properties do acid and bases have?
• Are household cleaners generally acids or bases?
• What are the 2 purine bases and the 2 pyrimidine bases?
• Are acids or bases more dangerous? Why?
• How do bases affect acids?
• What bases are purines?
• What are some examples of bases?
• How does a base differ from an acid?
• How do bases taste and feel?
• Why do bases taste bitter?
• How do bases affect your body?
• How do bases work?
• How do bases usually taste?
• How do bases taste? Are there exceptions to this typical property?
• How can bases harm you?
• What is an acid?
• What is a amino acid?
• Are carboxylic acids strong acids?
• What are the properties of acids and bases?
• What are the different types of acids?
• How do acids taste?
• What is the most powerful acid in the world?
• Acids react with metals to produce what?
• What is the strongest known acid?
• What are the strongest bases and acids found in nature?
• What are the six strongest acids? What are the six strongest bases?
• Where are acids and bases found in nature?
• What are examples of monoprotic, diprotic, and triprotic acids?
• Why do acids taste sour?
• Why do acids feel like they sting?
• How can acids be harmful?
• How do acids usually taste?
• Why do strongly-dissociating acids conduct electricity?
• What acids are in acid rain?
• How does acid affect teeth?
• How do acids feel?
• How do acids and bases react?
• How do acids and bases feel?
• How do acids affect litmus?
• What occurs when acid is added to HOT salt?
• What is the color of phenolphthalein indicator in acidic solution?
• If acetic acid is organic, why does it dissolve in water?
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• When water reacts with carbon dioxide in air or soil it forms what kind of acid?
• What is a discriminating test for the presence of a carboxylic acid?
• How does a strong acid differ from a weak acid?
• What are the differences between concentrated and dilute acids?
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• How do we determine the acidity of a salt?
• Which property of hydrogen fluoride causes it to be a weak acid in an aqueous solution?
• What characterizes a substance as an acid?
• Magnesium is added to a solution to check for acidity. If the solution is an acid, what will happen?
• Phenolphthalein is added to a solution. The phenolphthalein turns pink. What can be concluded about the solution?
• Hydrochloric acid is not soluble in toluene, a nonpolar solvent but quite soluble in water. What can be inferred about the nature of the acid?
• What is an acid indicator?
• What are all the colors of indicators?
• Why do bases make good household cleaners?
• Acids are described as corrosive because they do what?
• What is a characteristic property of acids?
• What type of compound often tastes bitter?
• Do acids or bases change the color of indicators?
• Student studying acidity of juices did a taste test and determined that the orange juice was the sweetest juice the lemon and and lime juices were the sourest. Based on this information, which is the best inference the student could make about acidity?
• Can anyone help explain the reasoning behind the answers?
• How to convert a carboxylic acid to an alcohol?
• In which solution would a #pH>7# be measured: #"A. Phosphoric acid;"# #"B. sodium fluoride;"# #"C. hydrogen chloride;"# #"D. sodium bromide."#?
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• What is the name of the family that are likely to form solutions with a pH greater than 7 which are bases?
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• What occurs when copper(II) oxide is treated with sulfuric acid?
• What evidence indicates that a base dissociates in water?
• Why is the acidity or alkalinity of hair care products important to a barber?
• Is #Sr(OH)_2# classified as a strong base or weak base?
• Can nitric acid be protonated?
• When working in the lab testing different pHlevels of acids and bases what safety rule must you always follow?
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• How are acids and bases different? How do there pH values differ?
• How do I find the #"H"_3"O"^+# concentration of compounds?
• Acidic solutions have a pH that is what?
• At equilibrium, it was found that #CH_3COOH# = 0.8537 M, #CH_3COO^-# = 0.0040 M, and #H_3O^+# = 0.0040 M . How do you calculate the acidity constant of #CH_3COOH# and the pH value of the solution?
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• Order these substances from highest to lowest #"pH"#?
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• Why might Ketchup stored in a tin can lead to chemical contamination?
• What is it called when acids and bases cancel out each other's chemical action in a reaction?
• What pH level is considered to be acidic and basic?
• Potassium hydroxide has the chemical formula KoH. It feels slippery and is used in cleaning liquids. Based on this description, what type of substance is potassium hydroxide most likely?
• What will the acid always have extra?
• Do bases have a tastes?
• Are bases proton acceptors?
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• How would we expect the autoprotolysis reaction of water.... #2H_2O(l) rightleftharpoons H_3O^+ + HO^-# .... to evolve with increasing temperature?
• How do you write the chemical equation and #K_b# expression for the ionization of ammonia in water? How is it safe for a window cleaner to use a solution of ammonia, which is basic?
• What happens to a base when put in water?
• What happens to acid when put in water?
• What is the taste of an acid?
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• To what colour will blue litmus paper turn if moistened with acetic acid?
• Do acids, bases, or water have a slippery, soapy feel?
• Comment on the electrical neutrality of strong acids. What is the equilibrium that defines the strength of an acid?
• What are the characteristics of a weak acid?
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• Which of these acids has more equivalence points in its titration curve? #"H"_2"SO"_4# or #"H"_3"PO"_4#? How can you tell which one is the weaker acid?
• Why does the acidity of #HX# #"(X=halogen)"# INCREASE down the Group?
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• Which of these is the strongest acid? #"HCl"#, #"H"_3"PO"_4#, #"CH"_3"COOH"#
• What is a generalization for determining whether an acid name will end in the suffix -ie or -ous?
• How is a strong acid different from a weak acid?
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• What is the term for the lumps that form when an acid is added to milk?
• What are produced when a base is dissolved in water?
• In the presence of acid, what color will litmus will turn?
• Why would you be advised to add hydrochloric acid dropwise, rather than in one go?
• A strong base releases more what than a weak base?
• What type of ions do acids (mostly) contain?
• What are the meanings of a strong acid and a weak acid? What are examples of each?
• In a NEUTRAL solution, how does #[HO^-]# compare to #[H_3O^+]#?
• Is shampoo acidic or basic?
• What is ammonia?
• What is a substance used as an acid-base indicator?
• What is the difference between a strong base and a weak base?
• What are the acid base pairs in the following equation: #HCOOH(aq) + H_2O(l) rightleftharpoons HCOO^(-)(aq) + H_3O^(+)(aq)#?
• What happens when a strong acid is added to water?
• What is the conjugate acid of ammonia that forms when it is added to water?
• How do we identify a strong acid in aqueous solution?
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• How do indicators work?
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• What is the difference between a concentrated and a dilute acid?
• What colour change would #NaCl(aq)# cause to added litmus paper?
• When does phenolphthalein turn pink?
• We know that a lemon tastes sour because it contains citric acid and acids are sour but what does bitter gourd contain because of which it tastes bitter?
• Review this balanced neutralization reaction: #HBr + KOH = KBr + H_2O#. Which substance is the base?
• What kind of ion is contained in salts that produce an acidic solution?
• Why isn't there a problem with washing your skin with water after dilute sulfuric acid gets on it?
• Which for the following is considered a weak base? A. Lithium hydroxide B. Sodium hydroxide C. Calcium hydroxide D. Aluminum hydroxide Thanks!
• What do we mean by concentration with respect to an acid? What is a concentrated acid?
• Do bases taste sharp?
• What are 3 properties of an acid? What are 3 properties of a base? How do they differ?