[leukybear]

well just want to clear things up..

basically, i'm studying chemistry on my own in my spare time at work and got a little confused.

basically:

A halogen and an alkali metal react to form a salt.

An acid and a metal react to form a salt and hydrogen gas.

An acid react with metal carbonates to form a salt, water and carbon dioxide.

An acid react with a metal oxide or metal hydroxide to form a salt and water aswell.

right, so they say a neutralization reaction is a reaction between an acid and an alkali in the correct proportions to form a neutral salt.

so are all the above neutral salts except for the first cause halogen forms a combination of acids when disolve in water so, it's not really an acid, i think?


so can someone please, make this clearer for me, plox..abit, just want to be clear.

[EierVonSatan]

To answer the title of your question: no not all salts are neutral in water.

You've given a list of general types of reaction so you can't say that one type will or will not give a neutral salt. It depends on the specific reactants.

right, so they say a neutralization reaction is a reaction between an acid and an alkali in the correct proportions to form a neutral salt.

No, just a salt.

Take HCl and NaOH, they react to give water and NaCl (which is a neutral salt). However if you take ethanoic acid and NaOH, you get water plus sodium ethanoate (CH₃COONa) which is not a neutral salt, it's quite basic.

p.s. what's VVV 2012?

[illusionz]

Depends if you mean pH neutral or charge neutral.

All salts consist of positive and negative ions in a proportion so the overall charge is zero, so they are neutral in that sense.

But as EVS said, they're not all pH neutral.

[leukybear]

oh thanks for your reply

[leukybear]

(Original post by EierVonSatan)
p.s. what's VVV 2012?

VeniViciVidi want support for super mod or something like that, he says wear it in forum sig for stars haven't gotten any for wearing it

[EierVonSatan]

(Original post by leukybear)
VeniViciVidi want support for super mod or something like that, he says wear it in forum sig for stars haven't gotten any for wearing it

! With 10 warning points on his account I think it may be something of a wind up/lost cause

[leukybear]

(Original post by EierVonSatan)
! With 10 warning points on his account I think it may be something of a wind up/lost cause

lol