Consider this reaction: acid + base salt + water. What type of...

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Consider this reaction: acid + base salt + water. What type of reaction is this?

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Hey everyone in this example we need to complete and balance the following neutralization reactions. Being sure to include our phase labels. So we want to recall that a neutralization reaction is a reaction where we have an acid reacting with a base. So we'll call that B. O. H. And we're going to produce the following products where we have water formed as well as a salt or an ionic compound. And so we want to look at example one where we have barium to hydroxide and sulfuric acid. So recognize in each of these compounds we have the O. H. An ion and the H plus catalon. Whenever we have the presence of O. H. And H. And two of our compounds, these ions will combine to form the product water. So we know that we have water formed so far. And for our second product everything else is going to combine. So recognize that we have the be a two plus kati on in the first compound and the S. 042 minus an eye on in the second compound. So these two ions are going to combine and we're going to have the formation where we buy our Catalan first. So be a. S. 04 as our product. And we want to recognize that this is a sulfate salt. And we want to recall our scalability rules for sulfates which states that sulfates are generally soluble with the exception of adam's like be a two plus PB two plus C. Two plus and strong team to two plus and in this case we are bonded to a be a two plus catalon. And so therefore this meets one of the exceptions for sulfates, making this sulfate and insoluble sulfates. So this would form a solid precipitate salt. So this would not be an Aquarius salt. And so the last step is to make sure that this equation is balanced. And in order to do so we're going to place a coefficient of two in front of our water so now that everything is balanced. So this is going to complete our answer for the first problem given moving on to problem number two, we have potassium hydroxide reacting with per cleric acid. So yet again we have the presence of O. H and H plus in our two compounds which will combine to form our product water. And for our second product that other ions will combine. So we have the presence of the K plus catalon and the per chlorate an ion. So Cielo four minus. And so what we're going to do is combine these two ions. So we're going to have the combination of our Catalan first and then cielo four and the charges will neutralize one another. So this is going to be a neutral compound. So we formed a we formed potassium per chlorate and we want to recognize that because we have a per chlorate. We want to recall that per chlorate are very soluble. So this is actually going to have the accu label, since this is a soluble salt compound, we want to recall that salt or the combination of acadian and then anna. And if we haven't recognized the pattern yet, which is therefore an ionic compound. And so this will complete our second example because this equation is actually already balanced, as is because we have one mole of everything. And so this is going to be our final answer for number two. So this is going to complete this example fully. If you have any questions, please leave them down below and I will see everyone in the next practice video.

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