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  • Mar 27, 2010, 07:30 PM
    Sharon Tervit
    A neutralisation reaction occurs when an ? Reacts with a ?
    This is to doing with my sience class exercise to doing with salts e.g. nitrates sulfates chlorides carbonates etc acid bases water acid + metal Hydrogen Acid +Carbonate etc the only part I can't remember are the neutalisation reactions can some one please help thank you.
  • Mar 28, 2010, 12:14 AM
    Unknown008

    You have to know that any acid reacting with a base is called an acid-base reaction, or neutralisation reaction.

    If you have a know acid reacting with a substance producing water, then the other substance is automatically a base.

    The same goes for an acid.

    However, the real definition of an acid is:
    An acid is a proton donor (provides H+ ions)
    A base is a proton acceptor (takes H+ ions)

    That's because you also have the base ammonia, NH3 and the gaseous hydrogen chloride acid HCl which take part in an acid-base reaction producing only ammonium chloride NH4Cl.

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