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Property Taste Texture of Solution Reaction with phenopthalein Reaction with litmus paper Reaction with metals Sour

Acids Bitter Slippery Pink Blue

Bases

No characteristic texture Colourless Red Reacts with metals above hydrogen in the activity series to displace H2(g)

Reacts with certain metals (such as Al) to form H2(g)

Reaction with fatty acids Aqueous properties of oxides

No reaction Non-metal oxides form acidic solutions

Forms soap Metal oxides form basic solutions

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