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Making Salts Worksheet

This worksheet accompanies Making Salts Summary
and Precipitation Reactions Summary.

1. When an acid reacts with a base, a neutralisation reaction occurs, producing a

salt. Using the following equation, name the salts that are produced
in the acid-base reactions.

acid + base salt + water

a) hydrochloric acid + ammonia → …Ammonium chloride……………………

b) nitric acid + sodium hydroxide → Sodium Nitrate………………………

c) phosphoric acid + potassium hydroxide →Potassium Phosphate………………………

2. There are three other ways of making salts from acids. Complete the following
equations to illustrate them.

a) acid + metal → salt + Hydrogen………………………

b) acid + Base……………………… → salt + water

c) acid + carbonate → salt + …Carbon Dioxide…………………… + water

3. Use the above information to complete the following reactions that form soluble salts
using acids.

a) iron oxide + sulfuric acid → Iron Sulphate……………………… + water

b) Magnesium Oxide……………………… + hydrochloric acid → magnesium chloride +

H2O + CO2

c) zinc + …Nitrogen…………………… → zinc nitrate + hydrogen

4. Name two ways in which salt is used by humans in everyday life.

Can be used as textiles and water treatment

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5. A student conducts an experiment to obtain the salt zinc nitrate from zinc oxide
powder (ZnO). He adds the powder spoon by spoon into a flask containing 1M of nitric
acid (HNO3).

a) Describe what happens to the first spoonfuls of powder when he mixes it with the acid.
Zinc Oxide reacts with the Nitric acid. It fizzes inside the container.

b) Describe what would happen if the student kept adding zinc oxide to the nitric acid
after the reaction between the acid and metal oxide was complete.
There will be extra metal oxide left at the bottom of the container. It won’t mix.

c) Write a word and symbol equation to show the results of this experiment.

Zinc Oxide + Nitric acid = ZInc Nitrate

6. Fill in the missing symbols and balance the following equations for making salts.

a) 2Na + Cl2 → 2NaCl

b) Al2O3 (s) + 3H2SO4 (aq) → Al2(SO4)3 (2…O…) + 3H2O (l)

c) H3PO4 (aq) + H2KOH(s) → K3PO4(aq) + P2H2O(I)

d) LiOH + HNO3 → LiNO + H + H2O

e) Ba(OH)2 + H2SO4 … → BaSO4 + 2H2O

f) 2HNO3 + Mg(OH)2 → Mg(NO3)2 + 2H2O

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