Common Salts in Daily Life


 
 
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Common Salts in Daily Life

Some Important Salts:

1. Sodium chloride: It is made up of sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid. Sodium chloride is highly soluble in water. Its solution in water is neutral as it is made up of a strong acid and a strong base.

2. Potassium nitrate: It is made from potassium hydroxide and nitric acid.

It is soluble in water. Its solution in water is neutral as it made up by the reaction between a strong acid and a strong base.

3. Aluminium chloride: It is made from aluminum hydroxide and hydrochloric acid. It is soluble in water. Its solution in water is slightly acidic as it is made up by the reaction between a strong acid and a weak base.

4. Copper sulphate: It is made from copper hydroxide and sulphuric acid. It is soluble in water. Its solution in water is slightly acidic as it is made up by the reaction between strong acid and weak base.

5. Sodium acetate: Sodium acetate is made from sodium hydroxide and acetic acid. Sodium acetate is soluble in water. Sodium acetate is basic in nature as it is made up by the reaction between a strong base and a weak acid.

6. Sodium carbonate: Sodium carbonate is made up from sodium hydroxide and carbonic acid. Sodium carbonate is soluble in water. Sodium carbonate is basic in nature as it is formed by the reaction between a strong base and a acid.

7. Sodium hydrogen carbonate: Sodium hydrogen carbonate is made up from sodium hydroxide and carbonic acid. Sodium hydrogen carbonate is sparingly soluble in water. It is basic in nature as it is formed by the reaction between a strong base and a weak acid.

8. Common salt: Common salt or table salt is sodium chloride. It is used in the production of many substances like sodium hydroxide, baking soda. washing bleaching powder. A solution of salt in water in called brine.

Sr. No

Name of the salt/chemical formula

Uses

1

Calcium Carbonate( Marble, Limestone, Chalk ) / CaCO_3

Flooring in the form of marble, to make lime (CaO), cement, and for extraction of iron.

2

Sodium Carbonate(washing soda)/Na_2CO_3.10H_2O

In cleaning ,detergents, water softening, and manufacture of glass

3

Sodium Bicarbonate(baking soda) / NaHCO_3

In bakery and medicines

4

Silver Nitrate/AgNO_3

In photography for developing films

5

Ammonium Nitrate /NH_4NO_3

Fertilizers and explosives

6

Potash Alum (phitkari) / K_2SO_4.Al_2(SO_4)_3.24H_2O

In purification of water

7

Sodium Chloride (Common Salt) / NaCI

As seasoning for food, in manufacture of chlorine and sodium carbonate

8. Potassium Nitrate In the manufacture of explosives like gunpowder, fertilizers, and crackers in fireworks.
9. Copper Sulphate

(a) As a fungicide under the name Bordeaux Mixture.

(b) As a wood preservative.

(c) In the dyeing industry.

(d) In electroplating.

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The chemical formula of Plaster of Paris is ________________

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Which of the following is a chemical formula of gypsum?

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The commercial name of calcium oxychloride is _______________

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