Acids and Alkalis Flashcards
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Is the acidity and alkalinity of a substance a chemical or physical property?
Chemical Property
What is an indicator?
An indicator is a solution of a dye that changes colour in acidic and alkaline solution.
What is pH measured with?
pH probe or universal indicator
What is the full form of pH?
Potential of Hydrogen
What is universal indicator?
A mixture of dyes that changes colour to show how acidic or alkaline a substance is.
How is sulfuric acid useful to us?
- fertilisers
-inticides - crops
-dyes
-medicines
-paints
-medicines
True or false: Neutralisation can treat stomach acid
TRUE
How to make an acid alkaline?
Add alkali
How to make an alkaline acidic?
Add acid
How to make acid neutral?
add alkali
how to make alkali neutral?
add acid
how to make neutral acidic or alkaline
add alkali or acid respectively
what is neutralisation?
It is the process in which a type of chemical reaction takes place, where the pH is 7.0