Salt Activity

This activity will introduce you the reaction between acids and bases that create salts and how to predict the pH of a salt.

Salt Activity

• Print out the worksheet: Salt Activity

• You are given the name of a salt. You must work backwards and determine what acid and what base react to form that salt. Fill in the chart. Don't forget to balance the reaction!

• The salt solution of each salt was tested with pH paper. Using the pH paper scale, determine the pH of each salt solution and record it in the chart.

• Look back at the type of acid and base (strong or weak) that reacted in each reaction and examine the resulting pH. Answer question 7 based on the patterns that you observed.

• You need to refer to the list of strong acids and strong bases for that question: (all others are weak!)