Hydrogen Chloride Song

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Hydrogen chloride (HCl acid) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH base) – sodium chloride and water Beryllium hydroxide ( Be(OH)2 not to acids ) One of the first things that you will learn in your high school or college chemistry class is that an acid always neutralizes a base, and a base always neutralizes an acid. Acids include vinegar, muriatic and citric fruits like lemons, and will turn a litmus paper red. Bases include sodium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide, ammonia water and many bleaches, and will turn litmus paper blue. Although neutralizing acids and bases is simple in theory, you have to be extremely careful when working with chemicals in order to prevent serious burns NaOH (sodium hydroxide) HCl + NaOH --> NaCl + H2O NaCl is table salt which is neutral A salt is any compound which can be derived from the neutralization of an acid and a base. The word "neutralization" is used because the acid and base properties of H+ and OH- are destroyed or neutralized. In the reaction, H+ and OH- combine to form HOH or H2O or water molecules. A neutralization is a type of double replacement reaction. A salt is the product of an acid-base reaction and is a much broader term then common table salt as shown in the first reaction. The following are some examples of neutralization reactions to form salts. a. HCl + NaOH --> NaCl + HOH Verse 1: Reminiscing our past For the 20th time today Analyzing my chem notes again Suddenly I knew what happened then I was a Hydrochlori-ic acid You were Phosphoric acid, same kind When we bumped into each other But we were both acids and I looked away Refrain (?): And maybe that was the biggest mistake of my life But maybe not cuz acids don’t neutralize Chorus: We can’t be together Cuz we might damage each other I can neutralize bases And turn litmus paper red And we’re on the same poles We

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