CHEMISTRY Lecture Notes - Zinc Hydroxide, Zinc Sulfate, Potassium Chloride

• School: Delhi Technological University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEMISTRY

Document Summary

A salt is a compound that is formed when the hydrogen atom in an acid is replaced by a metal. For example if we replace the h in hcl with a potassium atom, then the salt potassium chloride is formed, kcl. Salts are an important branch of chemistry due to the varied and important uses of this class of compounds. These uses include fertilizer, batteries, cleaning products, healthcare products and fungicides. The name of a salt has two parts. The first part comes from the metal, metal oxide or metal carbonate used in the reaction. The second part comes from the acid. The name of the salt can be determined by looking at the reactants. For example hydrochloric acid always produces salts that end in chloride and contain the chloride ion, cl . Other examples: sodium hydroxide reacts with hydrochloric acid to produce sodium chloride, zinc oxide reacts with sulfuric acid to produce zinc sulfate.