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Acids and Bases

Salt Hydrolysis and pH of Solutions

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Salt hydrolysis explains why some salt solutions are acidic, basic, or neutral. Salts are ionic compounds made of cations and anions. In water, either ion may react with water through an acid or base ionization reaction. The pH of the solution depends on the relative acid-base strength of the ions in the salt.

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Acids, bases, and ionic compounds form anions and cations when they dissolve in water.

Anions that are the conjugate base of strong acids, like chloride formed by the dissociation of hydrochloric acid, are too weak to accept a proton from water. Therefore, chloride ions are pH neutral; that is, they are neither acidic nor basic.

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