Answer the following questions related to salts and their preparations: (a) What is a ‘salt’?
Answer the following questions related to salts and their preparations:
(a) What is a ‘salt’?
(b) What kind of salt prepared by direct combination. Write an equation for the reaction that takes place in preparing the salt you have named.
(c) Name a salt prepared by direct combination. Write an equation for the equation for the reaction that takes place in preparing the salt you have named.
(d) Name the procedure used to prepare a sodium salt such as sodium sulphate.
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(a) Salt is a compound formed by the partial or total replacement of the ionizable hydrogen atoms of an acid by a metallic ion or an ammonium ion.
(b) An insoluble salt can be prepared by precipitation.
(c) A salt prepared by direct combination is Iron (III) chloride.
Reaction:
2Fe +3Cl2 2FeCl3
(d) The name of the procedure used to prepare a sodium salt such as sodium sulphate is Neutralization of acid with base.