chemical reactions
What is the starting substances otherwise known as the "ingredients"
Reactants
Neutralization produces...
salt water
An acid and a base are both _____ compounds
ionic
What is balancing an equation?
getting the same number of products and reactants
What is Neutralization?
When equal amounts of an acid react with a base and they form salt water.
What is a chemical reaction?
The process of which the atoms of one or more substances are rearranged to form different substances.
Combustion has the products of what?
Carbon and water
Acids turn blue litmus paper...
red
__ H2 + __ O2 -> __ H2O
what would the outcome of the equation be?
2 H2 + __ O2 -> 2 H2O
Which pH number is considered neutral 9,7,0,8
7
Chemical reactions are represented by what?
Equations
which equation brings two equations together?
synthesis
Hydrogen
Principle that says the total amount of matter isn't created nor is it destroyed during physical change or chemical change...
Law of conservation of mass
HCl + NaOH
Which is a base?
NaOH
What are all the types of chemical reaction?
Combustion, Neutralization, synthesis, decomposition, single displacement and double displacement.
Mg+2HCl -> H2 +MgCl
This is an example of what equation?
Single displacement
Bases break apart in water to form...
Hydroxide OH ions
The first step to balancing an equation is...
Take inventory of your elements
Zn(OH)2 + HNO3
Which is an acid?
HNO3
what are the five signs a chemical reaction has occurred?
Temperature change, release of light, odor change, gas given off and a sudden appearance of a solid
Decomposition
If you were to test laundry detergent what color would red litmus paper turn?
blue
__ AI + __ H2 SO4 -> __ AI2(SO4)3 + __ H2
What would the balanced equation be?
Ca(OH)2 + HPO4
What would the product be?
H2O +CaPO4