Strong Bases Lab Report

Bases are substances that are in aqueous solution, are slippery to the touch, taste bitter, change the color of indicators Examples turn red litmus paper blue and react with acids to form salts, promote certain chemical reactions. General properties of a base are Concentrated or strong bases and are caustic on organic matter and react violently with acidic substances. Also bases can are bitter in taste. And the pH of a basic solution at standard conditions is greater than seven. Strong bases are a basic chemical compound that can remove a proton (H+) from (or deprotonate) a molecule of a very weak acid in an acid-base reaction. Example of a strong base is lithium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide and strontium hydroxide just name a few but there
are many more strong bases than that. Neutral bases forms a bond with a neutral acid, a condition of electric stress occurs. The acid and the base share the electron pair that formerly only belonged to the base.

The next kind of base is a weak base is a hydrogen ion gradient between two sides of the biological membrane tend to be the concentration of some weak bases are focused on only one side of the membrane. Weak bases also tend to build up in acidic fluids. Example of weak bases is Ammonia, Methylamine and Pyridine. A Super base is when an extremely basic compound or substance that has a high affinity for protons. The hydroxide ion is the strongest base possible in aqueous solutions but bases exist with much greater strengths than can exist in water. Now I’m going to talk about some bases we use in everyday life for example we use soap to take baths and to wash our hands with. We use toothpaste to keep our mouth in good condition and to prevent from getting any kind of mouth disease that comes from not brushing your teeth. Also we use detergent to keep out clothes clean.
The next topic I’m going to talk about is Acids is basically an acid is a chemical substance whose aqueous solutions are characterized by a sour taste, the ability to turn blue litmus red, and the ability to react with bases and certain metals to form salts.
Aqueous solutions of acids have a pH of less than 7. An acid has a ph containing acid or having the properties of an acid in particular, having a pH of less than 7. Acids we use eat and drink everyday are oranges and lemons. The strength of an acid refers to its ability or tendency to lose a proton. A strong acid is one that completely dissociates in water; in other words, one mole of a strong acid HA dissolves in water yielding one mole of H+ and one mole of the conjugate base, A−, and none of the protonated acid. Then the neutralization of acid is when the reaction between an acid and a base, producing a salt and neutralized base for example hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide form sodium chloride and water. Neutralization with a base weaker than the acid results in a weakly acidic salt. An example is the weakly acidic ammonium chloride, which is produced from the strong acid hydrogen chloride and the weak base ammonia. Conversely neutralizing a weak acid with a strong base gives a weakly basic salt sodium fluoride from hydrogen fluoride and sodium hydroxide. Acids are often used to remove rust and other corrosion from metals in a process known as pickling. They may be used as an electrolyte in a wet cell battery
such as sulfuric acid in a car battery.