Question

What is a salt? Give the names and formula of any two salts.
a) Name the acids and bases from which these salts may be obtained.
b) What is meant by hydrated and anhydrous salts? Explain with example..

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) A salt is a compound formed from an acid by the replacement of the hydrogen in the acid by a metal. Example: Sodium chloride – NaCl; It is obtained from hydrochloric acid and sodium metal. Ammonium chloride – NH4Cl; It is obtained from ammonia and hydrochloric acid

c...Hydrated salts have water within their crystals when the crystals are formed from water; an anhydrous salt is where the crystal has had the water driven out.

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