Question

Classify each salt as acidic, basic, or neutral. drag the appropriate items to their respective bins. hints hint 1. how to approach the problem(click to open) hint 2. identify the cations from weak bases(click to open) hint 3. identify the anions from weak acids(click to open) helpreset nh4clnaclokno3 neutral salts acidic salts basic salts

Answer 1

It is known that acids compounds contains hydrogen and produces hydrogen ion in water. A binary acid however is an acid that have two elements, one of the element has a hydrogen attached to it. Examples of binary acids are hydrogen fluoride (HF), hydrogen bromide (HBr) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S). In naming a binary acid, it has two rules; one, as pure compounds and two, as acid solutions. For pure compounds, start with the name ‘hydrogen’ and end the anion name with ‘-ide’. For acidic compounds, start with ‘hydro-‘, end the anion with ‘-ic’ and add ‘acid’.

Answer 2

Answer:

$NH_4Cl$ -> Acidic

$NaClO$ -> Basic

$KNO_3$ -> Neutral

Explanation:

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In this case, considering the given salts, $NH_4Cl$, $NaClO$, $KNO_3$ one classifies them as follows:

- $NH_4Cl$: ammonium chloride is an acidic salt since it comes from ammonium hydroxide which is a weak base and hydrochloric acid which a strong base, thus, due to the partial neutralization, there are still traces of an acidic character which provides such behavior for this salt.

- $NaClO$: sodium hypochlorite is a basic salt since it comes from sodium hydroxide which is a strong base and hypochlorous acid which is a weak acid by means of the contrary behavior of the $NH_4Cl$ since traces of a basic character promote such basic behavior.

- $KNO_3$: potassium nitrate is a neutral salt as long as it comes from the potassium hydroxide which is a strong base and the nitric acid which is a strong acid, promoting the complete neutralization.

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