Acids
A substance that dissociates to form H+ ions.
What is an acid?
A substance that neutralizes an acid to form salt and water.
What is a base?
An ionic compound formed by the reaction between an acid and a base.
What is a salt?
It is called a cation.
What is a positively-charged ion called?
A positively-charged particle found in the nucleus of an atom.
What is a proton?
The products of this are a salt and a gas that extinguishes a lighted flame with a "pop" sound.
What are the products of the reaction between an acid and a metal?
A base that is soluble in water.
What is an alkali?
A reaction between two aqueous solutions that produces an insoluble product.
What is a precipitation reaction?
Electrostatic attraction between a cation and an anion.
What is an ionic bond?
What is an electron?
The name given to a reaction between an acid and a base.
What is neutralization?
The products are magnesium chloride and water.
What are the products of the reaction between magnesium oxide (or magnesium hydroxide) and hydrochloric acid?
This salt can be made by reacting silver nitrate and hydrochloric acid.
What is a method to prepare silver chloride?
A joining of two atoms due to the sharing of valence electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
The outermost electron shell of an atom.
What is a valence shell?
The products are calcium nitrate, carbon dioxide and water.
What are the products of the reaction between nitric acid and calcium carbonate?
The products are ammonia gas, a salt and water.
What is produced when an alkali reacts with an ammonium salt?
This salt can be made by mixing barium nitrate and magnesium sulfate.
What is a method to prepare barium sulfate?
A metal atom and a non-metal atom.
What types of atoms form ionic bonds between them?
They are chemically stable elements that exist with complete valence shells.
What are noble gases?
The products are (NH4)2SO4 and H2O.
What are the products of the reaction between NH4OH and H2SO4?
NaNO3 + NH3 + H2O
This salt can be made by mixing lead nitrate and sulfuric acid.
What is a method to make lead sulfate?
The weak forces of attraction between molecules in a simple covalent compound.
What are Van Der Waal's forces?
They are elements that lose electrons in order to gain chemical stability.
What are metals?