Neutrilisation

• • An acid and alkali will neutralise each other and produce a salt and water. This is called a neutralisation reaction.
• • The name of the salt produced can be worked out from the names of the acid and the alkali.
• • Chemical equations can be written to describe a neutralisation reaction.
• What are the names of the substances formed in a neutralisation reaction?

  A salt and water.
• An acid can be neutralised by adding it to an alkali to make a salt and water. 
• The three acids most commonly used in chemistry are nitric acid, sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid.
• The three acids most commonly used in chemistry are nitric acid, sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid.
• These three acids use different words for the name of salts produced by them:

  • A salt made from hydrochloric acid will end in chloride
  • A salt made from nitric acid will end in nitrate
  • A salt made from sulfuric acid will end in sulfate