Chemistry Exam for 9th Grade

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What is an acid?
Acids contain hydrogen ions, corrosive to metals, and taste sour. They are also proton doners.
What is a base?
Bases taste bitter, slippery to touch, and contain hydroxide ions. They are also proton accepters.
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List the three states of matter?
Solids, gases, liquids
What is the pH scale?
A list from 1-14 that shows if a substance is an acid or base.
What is the process of mixing an acid and base called?
Neutralization
Neutralization forms . . .
Water and salt
What is a colloid?
A substance that still has some solute in it. An example of this is milk.
What is a suspension?
Suspensions have many layers of particles still visible to the eye. An example of this is salad dressing.
What is a solution?
A solution is completely dissolved and contains a solvent and solute.
Bases turn red litums paper . . .
Blue
Acids turn blue litmus paper . . .
Red
What is a solute?
A smaller substance that is dissolved in the solvent.
What is solvent?
A solvent is what the solute is dissolved in. The universal solvent is water.
Salt is a what type of compound?
Ionic