Activity: How does a salt get its name?

ATL
Communication skills: Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific terms and symbols
Understand and use mathematical notation
Organise and depict information logically

Use this table to complete the following activity.

1. Deduce the name of the following salts.

● Ba(NO3)2 - Barium nitrate

● MgCl2 - Magnesium chloride
● K2SO4 - Potassium sulphate
● LiNO3- Lithium nitrate
● CH3COONa - Sodium acetate
● CaSO3- Calcium sulphite
● AIPO4 - Aluminium phosphate
● NaNO2 - Sodium nitrite

2. Formulate word equations for the following reactions:

● Magnesium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid => magnesium chloride + water

● Ethanoic acid and sodium carbonate => sodium ethanoate + carbon + water

● Potassium hydroxide and nitrous acid => water + potassium nitrite

● Hydrochloric acid and ammonium hydroxide => water +Ammonium chloride

● Sodium oxide and phosphoric acid => water + Trisodium phosphate

● Calcium carbonate and sulfuric acid => water + Calcium sulfate + carbon dioxide

3. Formulate balanced symbol equations with state symbols for the reactions.
 ● Magnesium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid
Mg(OH)2 + 2HCl => MgCl2 + H2O

● Ethanoic acid and sodium carbonate

2CH3COOH + Na2CO3 => 2CH3COOHNa + CO2 + H2O

● Potassium hydroxide and nitrous acid

KOH + HNO2 => KNO2 + H2O

● Hydrochloric acid and ammonium hydroxide

HCl + NH4OH => NH4Cl + H2O

● Sodium oxide and phosphonic acid

Na2O + H3PO4 => Na3PO4 + H2O

● Calcium carbonate and sulfuric acid

H2SO4 + CaCO3 => CaSO4 + H2O + CO2

4. Deduce possible reactants that would react together to form the salts in question 1.

1. Barium carbonate + Sodium nitrate

2. Magnesium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid
3. Barium sulphate + Potassium nitrate
4. Potassium nitrate + Lithium oxide
5. Methane + Sodium carbonate
6. Calcium + Sulfuric acid
7. Aluminium nitrate + Sodium phosphate
8. Sodium nitrite + dioxygen

Assessment opportunities
In this activity you have practised skills that are assessed using Criterion A Knowing and Understanding