Acids and Bases

Acids and Bases

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Welcome to chemistry one of the first lessons that’s taught

Is about acids, bases and salts

See cooking is a form of chemistry mama cooking that spaghetti

Homemade sauce took forever to be ready if it was salty

She would add water to neutralize it, and if it was to bitter

She would just go add sugar cooking Italian is one of her many talents

Experiments with seasoning there’s a perfect balance

For thousands of years people have known that vinegar lemon juice

Foods taste sour a 100 years ago it was discovered that these foods

They are that way because they’re all acids “acids”

If acid was a villain we’ll need a superhero I introduce you to Base

To balance out the place bases are substances that can react

With acids neutralize them and the result creates salt

Here’s an example, let’s say you’re stomach is aching loaded with gases

Let’s say it’s all the acids in order to calm it down you go and race

To the store by Rolaids or tums and that’s a base

Chew it up and swallow watch it get into the stomach and

Start to neutralize things instantly, you feel better huh? “yeah”

It’s not a mystery look a little closer and see its all chemistry

Is it an acid acid, is it a base base

The PH goes from 0-14 below 7 let’s be know that it’s an acid

Above 7 lets me know that it’s a base, hey!

Is it an acid acid, is it a base base

The PH goes from 0-14 the lower the number the stronger the acid is

The higher number the stronger the base

Okay, let’s talk about bases got a bitter taste

Used by many as clean up products to clean up places

Ammonia, baking soda, draynol and soap some bases mix with water

And they just can’t cope so they dissolve we call those bases

Alkalis one of them is Alka-Seltzer we use it all the time

What can we use to tell if it’s a base or an acid

Pieces of paper they call litmus it changes drastic

Put the paper in acid watch it turn red

Red paper in bases watch it turn blue

If it’s neutral like water paper stays the same

Mix it the game change two salts with different names

Salts are created when bases and acids collide

The name of the salt form depends on the metal inside

The bases are the acids used combine the two

Not complicated ima break it down for you now this is where most

Of you students go wrong it seems so confusing the names are so long

The name of salt has two parts like your first and last name

The first name comes from the metal that’s in the base

The last name comes from the acid that’s used to make it

Salt’s made from sulfate acid ends in sulfate

Salt’s made from hydrochloric acid ends in chloride

So, here’s an example to give you so you’ll be alright

Let’s say the metal and the base is totally hydroxide

Let’s say the acid is hydrochloric acid

The first name would be sodium the last name would be chloride

Put them together its Sodium Chloride let’s say the metal is sodium

Let’s say the acid is sulfur acid that’s sodium sulfate

Let’s say the metal is copper let’s say the acid is hydrochloric

That’s copper chloride

Is it an acid acid, is it a base base

The PH goes from 0-14 below 7 let’s be know that it’s an acid

Above 7 lets me know that it’s a base, hey!

Is it an acid acid, is it a base base

The PH goes from 0-14 the lower the number the stronger the acid is

The higher number the stronger the base, hey!