front 1 Acid | back 1 any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt |
front 2 Base | back 2 any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water |
front 3 "salt" | back 3 a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) |
front 4 Corrossive | back 4 The way in which acid reacts with some metals so as to eat away the metal. |
front 5 Sulfuric Acid | back 5 (H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide |
front 6 Nitric Acid | back 6 (HNO₃) (aq) - A type of acid that forms in the atmosphere from oxides of nitrogen. |
front 7 Phosphoric Acid | back 7 an acid used in fertilizers and soaps: H3PO4 |
front 8 Hydrochloric Acid | back 8 an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride |
front 9 Acetic Acid | back 9 a colorless pungent liquid widely used in manufacturing plastics and pharmaceuticals |
front 10 Muriatic Acid | back 10 Concentrated solutions of hydrochloric acid; usually used for cleaning. |
front 11 Stomach Acid | back 11 Breaks down proteins, breaks them down into sugar and acids (HCl) |
front 12 Battery Acid | back 12 (H₂SO₄) - A diluted sulfuric acid used in storage batteries. Cars use lead-acid batteries that supply electric energy. |
front 13 Lye | back 13 a strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide |
front 14 Caustic | back 14 any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue |
front 15 Arrhenius Acid | back 15 a chemical compound that increases the concentration of hydrogen ions in aqueous solution |
front 16 Arrhenius Base | back 16 a substance that increases the concentration of hydroxide ions in aqueous solution |
front 17 Aqueous | back 17 dissolved in water |
front 18 Strong Acid or base | back 18 an acid or base that disassociates essentially completly when dissolved to form a solution. |
front 19 Sodium Hydroxide | back 19 a strongly alkaline caustic used in manufacturing soap and paper and aluminum and various sodium compounds |
front 20 Weak acid or base | back 20 substance that produces few ions when dissolved in water |
front 21 Ammonia | back 21 a pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3) |
front 22 Bronsted Acid | back 22 a molecule or ion that is a proton donor |
front 23 Bronsted Base | back 23 a molecule or ion that is a proton acceptor |
front 24 Conjugate Acid | back 24 the particle formed when a base gains a hydrogen ion |
front 25 Conjugate Base | back 25 the particle that remains when an acid has donated a hydrogen ion |
front 26 Amphoteric | back 26 having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either |
front 27 Neutralization reaction | back 27 a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base interact with the formation of a salt |
front 28 Acid Rain | back 28 rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combine with water |
front 29 Ionization constant of water | back 29 the product of the molar concentrations of hydronium and hydroxide ions; at 25 degrees Celsius = 1.0 X 10-14 |
front 30 Acidic solution | back 30 any solution in which the hydrogen-ion concentration is greater than the hydroxide-ion concentration |
front 31 Basic Solution | back 31 a solution whose pH is greater than 7 |
front 32 Neutral Solution | back 32 a solution whose pH equals 7 |
front 33 pH | back 33 (chemistry) p(otential of) H(ydrogen) |
front 34 pOH | back 34 -log[OH-] |
front 35 acid-base indicator | back 35 a chemical dye whose color is affected by acidic and basic solutions |
front 36 Titration | back 36 a measured amount of a solution of unknown concentration is added to a known volume of a second solution until the reaction between them is just complete |
front 37 Equivalence point | back 37 the point at which the two solutions used in a titration are present in chemically equivalent amounts |
front 38 Endpoint | back 38 a place where something ends or is complete |
front 39 Phenolphthalein | back 39 a laxative used in many preparations under various trade names |
front 40 Litmus Paper | back 40 unsized paper treated with litmus for use as an acid-base indicator |