Salts that produce neutral solutions

Salts that produce neutral solutions Sodium nitrate (NaN03) is the salt of a strong acid (HNO3) and a strong base (NaOH). Little or no salt hydrolysis occurs because neither Na nor NOs" react with water. Therefore, a solution of sodium nitrate is neutral. 

Salts That Produce Neutral Solutions Salts That Produce Basic Solutions Salts That Produce Acidic Solutions Metal Ion Hydrolysis Salts in Which Both the Cation and Anion Hydrolyze... 

Ammonia is one of several substances that produce basic solutions in water. As you can see, ammonia does not contain hydroxide ions. However, it does produce these ions when it reacts with water. Ammonia also undergoes a neutralization reaction with acids. The Arrhenius theory cannot explain the basic properties of ammonia. Nor can it explain the fact that certain other substances, such as salts that contain carbonate ions, also have basic properties. 

Negative substituents enhance the acidic properties of phenols, an effect opposite to that produced with aromatic amines. o and p-Chloro-phenols are considerably stronger acids than phenol itself, and o- and p-nitrophenols are still stronger. Trinitrophenol, picric acid, is a strong acid whose salts are neutral and not decomposed by carbonic acid or by ammonium salts. These salts of picric acid can be salted out of neutral solutions by sodium or potassium chloride. With negatively substituted phenols, it may be possible to separate the phenolate from solutions which are neutral or weakly alkaline to litmus. In doubtful cases, just as with the amines, the precipitated material must be studied to determine whether it is the free phenol or one of its salts. The color of the precipitate gives an indication in the case of the nitrophenols, since the free phenols have only a weak yellow color, whereas the alkali salts are deep yellow. Solubility tests with indififerent solvents may be used in the case of uncolored compounds. Only the free phenol can be separated from acidic solutions. 

What is a salt Fist some anions that behave as weak bases in water. Fist some anions that have no basic properties in water. Fist some cations that behave as weak acids in water. Fist some cations that have no acidic properties in water. Using these lists, give some formulas for salts that have only weak base properties in water. What strategy would you use to solve for the pH of these basic salt solutions Identify some salts that have only weak acid properties in water. What strategy would you use to solve for the pH of these acidic salt solutions Identify some salts that have no acidic or basic properties in water (produce neutral solutions). When a salt contains both a weak acid ion and a weak base ion, how do you predict whether the solution pH is acidic, basic, or neutral ... 

We saw in Section J that a salt is produced by the neutralization of an acid by a base. However, if we measure the pH of a solution of a salt, we do not in general find the neutral value (pH = 7). For instance, if we neutralize 0.3 M CHjCOOH(aq) with 0.3 M NaOH(aq), the resulting solution of sodium acetate has pH = 9.0. How can this be The Bronsted-Lowry theory provides the explanation. According to this theory, an ion may be an acid or a base. The acetate ion, for instance, is a base, and the ammonium ion is an acid. The pH of a solution of a salt depends on the relative acidity and basicity of its ions. 

STRATEGY Because NH4+ is a weak acid and Cl- is neutral, we expect pH < 7. We treat the solution as that of a weak acid, using an equilibrium table as in Toolbox 10.1 to calculate the composition and hence the pH. First, write the chemical equation for proton transfer to water and the expression for Ca. Obtain the value of Ka from Kh for the conjugate base by using K, = KxJKh (Eq. 11a). The initial concentration of the acidic cation is equal to the concentration of the cation that the salt would produce if the salt were fully dissociated and the cation retained all its acidic protons. The initial concentrations of its conjugate base and H30+ are assumed to be zero. 

In hydrolysis, a salt reacts with water. The ions that hydrolyze do so because a weak acid or a weak base is formed. The process of hydrolysis removes ions from the solution and is the driving force for the reaction. The reaction may produce a solution that is acidic, basic or neutral according to the following chart ... 

The acidic or basic property of an aqueous solution of a salt results from reactions between water and the dissociated ions of the salt. Some ions do not react with water. They are neutral in solution. Ions that do react with water produce a solution with an excess of HsO iaq) or OH (aq). The extent of the reaction determines the pH of the solution. As you will see, the reaction between an ion and water is really just another acid-base reaction. 

Sodium hydroxide is a strong base. The most important reactions are the neutraliztion reactions with acids that form salts and water. Thus with sulfuric, hydrochloric, and nitric acids, the corresponding sodium salts are obtained when solutions are evaporated for crystallization. Neutralization with weak acids forms basic salts. Reactions with organic acids produce their soluble sodium salts. 

The point at which, supposedly, 50% of the acid species is transformed in salt corresponds to the half-neutrahzation, i.e., when half the alkahne required to reach the equivalence point has been added. This position corresponds to a buffer zone in which the variation of pH is small with respect to the amoimt of added neutralization solution (Fig. 14 left plot). Hence, in this region a very slight variation of pH can produce a very large variation of neutralization (Fig. 14 right plot), i.e., a considerable alteration of the relative proportion of AH and A . Far away from this pH, the opposite occurs. Consequently, the pH could be used to carry out a formulation scan, but the scale is far from hnear and the variation of pH does not render the variation of the characteristic parameter of the actual surfactant mixture that is at interface [77,78]. The appropriate understanding of the behavior of this kind of acid-salt mixture is particularly important in enhanced oil recovery by alkaline flooding [79,80] and emulsification processes that make use of the acids contained in the crude oils [81-83]. 

Vesicular films have a honeycomb-like cross-section and are constructed of a polyester base coated with a thermoplastic resin and a light-sensitive diazonium salt. Photopolymer films contain carbon black as a substitute for silver. These films are processed in a weak alkaline solution that is neutralized prior to disposal. As such, they produce a nonhazardous waste. 

Acid-base neutralization reactions are processes in which an acid reacts with a base to yield water plus an ionic compound called a salt. You might recall from Section 2.9 that we defined acids as compounds that produce H+ ions when dissolved in water and bases as compounds that produce OH- ions when dissolved in water. Thus, the driving force behind a neutralization reaction is the production of the stable covalent water molecule by removal of H + and OH- ions from solution. The reaction between hydrochloric acid and aqueous sodium hydroxide to yield water plus aqueous sodium chloride is a typical example ... 

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