PS Unit 3, Chapter 3 Acids, Bases and Salts

Strong bases are slippery to the touch and caustic.

• True
• False

Bases taste ____________.

• sweet
• sour
• briney
• bitter

Bases are used to make household cleaners, soaps, and fertilizers.

• True
• False

Bases are proton _____________.

• donors
• acceptors
• retrievers 
• deceivers

A base is a compound that releases _______ ions when it is dissolved in water.

• halide
• hydrogen
• hydroxide
• halogen

Acid rain is produced because sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide and other industrial waste byproducts react with tiny droplets of water in clouds to become sulfuric and nitric acids (both weak acids).

• True
• False

Some weak acids are

• acetic, boric, hydrochloric
• acetic, carbonic, citric
• citric, boric, sulfuric
• citric, nitric, acetic

Strong acids are good electrolytes and very corrosive.

• True
• False

The most common acids used in industry are which strong acids?

• hydrochloric, sulfuric, nitric
• hydrochloric, phosphoric, acetic
• sulfuric, carbonic, boric
• sulfuric, citric, nitric

The acid that produces many hydrogen ions when dissolved in water is a _______________, but if it produces only a few, then it is a _________________.

• strong acid, strong acid
• strong acid, weak acid
• weak acid, weak acid
• weak acid, strong acid