Answer the following questions related to salts and their preparations

1.	Answer the following questions related to salts and their preparations:(a) What is a ‘salt’?(b) What kind of salt prepared by direct combination. Write an equation for the reaction that takes place in preparing the salt you have named.(c) Name a salt prepared by direct combination. Write an equation for the equation for the reaction that takes place in preparing the salt you have named.(d) Name the procedure used to prepare a sodium salt such as sodium sulphate.
Answer» (a) Salt is a compound formed by the partial or total replacement of the ionizable hydrogen atoms of an acid by a metallic ion or an ammonium ion. (b) An insoluble salt can be prepared by precipitation. (c) A salt prepared by direct combination is Iron (III) chloride. Reaction: 2Fe +3Cl₂ 2FeCl₃ (d) The name of the procedure used to prepare a sodium salt such as sodium sulphate is Neutralization of acid with base.

Answer the following questions related to salts and their preparations:(a) What is a ‘salt’?(b) What kind of salt prepared by direct combination. Write an equation for the reaction that takes place in preparing the salt you have named.(c) Name a salt prepared by direct combination. Write an equation for the equation for the reaction that takes place in preparing the salt you have named.(d) Name the procedure used to prepare a sodium salt such as sodium sulphate.

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(a) Salt is a compound formed by the partial or total replacement of the ionizable hydrogen atoms of an acid by a metallic ion or an ammonium ion.

(b) An insoluble salt can be prepared by precipitation.

Reaction:

2Fe +3Cl₂ 2FeCl₃

(d) The name of the procedure used to prepare a sodium salt such as sodium sulphate is Neutralization of acid with base.