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Understanding Neutralisation Reactions

The document explains the concept of neutralisation, where an acid and an alkali react to form a salt and water, represented by the equation: acid + alkali → salt + water. It includes a table for sorting various acids, alkalis, and salts, and provides examples of everyday neutralisation reactions, such as the use of lime to counteract acid rain. Additionally, it outlines the ability to write word equations for these reactions and their practical applications.

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Understanding Neutralisation Reactions

The document explains the concept of neutralisation, where an acid and an alkali react to form a salt and water, represented by the equation: acid + alkali → salt + water. It includes a table for sorting various acids, alkalis, and salts, and provides examples of everyday neutralisation reactions, such as the use of lime to counteract acid rain. Additionally, it outlines the ability to write word equations for these reactions and their practical applications.

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7 Fd-5 Neutralisation equations

An acid and an alkali react together. The reaction is called neutralisation. The products of the
reaction are a salt and water.
The word equation for the chemical change has the pattern:
acid + alkali  salt + water

1 In the table below there are the names of five acids, five alkalis and five salts.
Cut out all the cards and sort them into acids, alkalis and salts. You should also be left with five
‘water’ cards.
Copy the names down into a table with the headings, ‘acids’, ‘alkalis’ and ‘salts’.
Next, sort the cards, including the water cards into reactants and products, of five neutralisation
reactions.
Stick the cards onto a sheet of paper in the form of the word equations and write in the ‘and’
symbol (+) and the ‘react to form’ symbol ().

Hydrochloric Sodium Potassium


Water Water
acid hydroxide citrate

Lithium Potassium Sodium Ammonium


Nitric acid
chloride hydroxide ethanoate hydroxide

Calcium Ammonium Calcium


Water Sulfuric acid
hydroxide nitrate sulfate

Lithium
Ethanoic acid Water Water Citric acid
hydroxide

2 Neutralisation reactions are used every day. Describe reactions that take place in the following
situations, including (where appropriate) the reactants and products, if you can, and why the
neutralisation is useful. Write word equations if you know the names of all the substances.
a Ammonium nitrate is a useful fertiliser. How can it be manufactured?
b Lakes affected by acid rain contain sulfuric acid. Lime (calcium hydroxide) is added to the
lakes.
c If farmers add too much fertiliser to soils it can contain nitric acid. Calcium hydroxide is
sometimes spread on the soil.
d Potassium citrate is a food additive. How can it be made?

I can…
● write word equations for neutralisation reactions
● name the products when a named acid reacts with a
named alkali

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7 Fd-5 Neutralisation equations

● explain some everyday uses of neutralisation


reactions.

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