Vocab
Vocab 2
Acids
Bases
100
What is an Acid
An acid is any compound that increases the number of hydronium oins when dissolved in water
100
What is a base?
Any compound that increases the number of hydroxide ions when dissolved in water
100
What is Acid on the pH scale?
What is 6 or below
100
What is Basic on the pH scale?
What is 8 or above
200
What is an Indicator?
A compound that can reversibly change color depending on conditions such as pH
200
What is pH?
A value that is used to express the acidity or alkalinity of a system
200
What types of ions are acids?
What is Hydronium
200
What types of ions are bases?
What is Hydroxide
300
What is an antacid?
A weak base that neutralizes stomach acid
300
What is an Electrolyte?
A substance that dissolves in water to give a solution that conducts an electric current
300
Name Properties of Acids?
Taste Sour, cause indicators to change color, and conduct electric current, damage materials including skin
300
Name some properties of Bases
Taste Bitter, slippery, conduct electric current, cause indicators to change color, can damage skin
400
What is Concentration?
Concentration is the measure of how much of a given acid that is mixed with another substance
400
What is Strength
How many ions are in a solution
500
An ionic compound that forms when a metal atom or a positive radical replaces the hydrogen of an acid?
What is salt
500
The reaction of the ions that characterizes acids and the ions that characterize bases
What is Neutralization Reaction