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2. How would you measure the pH of a substance? A pH paper or universal indicator and check the colour

3. Name a acid used in the lab. Hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, nitric acid.

4. Name an alkali used in the lab. Sodium hydroxide, lime water and ammonia solution

5. What are the pH values for an acid?. Below 7

6. What is the pH of a neutral solution? 7

7. What are the pH values for an alkali? Above 7

8. What happens to the acidity as the pH of an acid goes down? It becomes more acidic.

9. What happens to the pH of an acid when diluted with water? pH goes up

10. What happens to the pH of an alkali when diluted with water? It goes down

11. What happens to the acidity of an acid when diluted with water? It becomes less acidic

12. What happens to the alkalinity of an alkali when diluted with water? It becomes less alkaline

13. Name a common household acid. Vinegar, lemonade, soda water and coke.

14. Name a common household alkali. Baking soda, oven cleaner, dishwasher powder, bleach and soaps.

15. What type of chemical reaction takes when an acid is used? Neutralisation

16. What are the products when sodium hydroxide neutralises hydrochloric acid? Sodium chloride and water

17. Name the salt produced when potassium hydroxide neutralises sulphuric acid. Potassium sulphate

18. Name the salt produced when calcium carbonate neutralises nitric acid. Calcium nitrate

19. What happens to the pH of an acid when it is neutralised? It goes up to 7

20. What happens to the pH of an alkali when it is neutralised? It goes down to 7

21. What are the products when a metal carbonate neutralises an acid? Salt, water and carbon dioxide gas

22. Give an everyday example of neutralisation. Treatment of indigestion, reducing tooth decay, reducing soil acidity

23. What is produced when an alkali neutralises an acid? Salt and water

24. Which oxides dissolve in water in the atmosphere to produce acid rain? Carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide

25. How is sulphur dioxide produced? Burning fossil fuels

26. How is nitrogen dioxide produced in a car engine? Sparking of air in the engine

27. Give an example of the damaging effect of acid rain? Destroys buildings made from rock, structures made from steel/iron, soils and animal and plant life.

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