Question

Write 10 salts and their uses

Answer 1

Answer:

Name of Salts

Uses

Sodium Chloride or Common Salt (NaCl)

Used in cooking food as well as for cooking gas.

Used as a preservative in pickles and in curing meat and fish.

Used in the manufacture of soap.

Used to melt the ice in winter in cold countries.

Used for making chemical likes washing Soda, baking soda etc.

Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH)

Used for making soap and detergent

Used for making artificial textile fibre (rayon)

Used in the manufacturing of paper

Used for purification of bauxite ore

Used in de-greasing metals, oil refining and making dyes and bleaches

Sodium Carbonate or Washing Soda (Na2CO3.10H2O)

Used as cleansing agent

Used for removing permanent hardness of water

Used in the manufacturing of glass, soap and paper

Baking Soda or Sodium Bi-carbonate (NaHCO3)

Used as neutralising agent (antacid)

Used for making baking powder

Used  in fire extinguisher

Bleaching Powder or Calcium Hypochlorite

Used as bleaching agent in cotton industry and paper industry for bleaching cotton and linen as well as wood pulp respectively

Used for disinfecting drinking water

Used for making chloroform (CHCl3)

Used for making the wool unshrinkable

Plaster of Paris or Hemihydrate Calcium sulphate, CaSO4 1/2 H2O

Used in hospital for setting fractured bone

Used for making toys, decoration material cheap ornament, chalk etc

Used for fire-proofing material

Used for making surface smooth.

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