Solutions: Acids and Bases

Question 1

What is a solution?

Answer 1

Things being mixed with water
(solid substance (solute) is dissolved into a liquid (solvent))

Question 2

What happens when a solute breaks down?

Answer 2

Those solutions would be called acids and bases

Question 3

What does an acid do?

Answer 3

Acids break down in a way that produces hydrogen protons (the more protons get produced, the more destruction it can cause
(same with ions from a base)

Question 4

What does a base do?

Answer 4

A base breaks down in a way that produces oxygen + hydrogen ions

Question 5

Can both acids and bases be dangerous?

Answer 5

Yes, in order to neutralize them you would have to mix an acid with a equally strong base

Question 6

How do you measure how strong an acid/base is?

Answer 6

By using the pH scale
(potential hydrogen), the scale is by 0-14, 7 being neutral

Question 7

Are acids higher than 7 or lower than 7?

Answer 7

Lower than 7

Question 8

Are bases lower than 7 or higher than 7?

Answer 8

Higher than 7