Acids taste sour,
And bases taste bitter,
But don’t try to taste,
Unless you want blisters.
Lactic acid is in curd
And acetic acid in vinegar
Oxalic acid is in spinach,
And citric acid in citrus fruits.
Bases end with “Hydroxide”
Learn this side by side.
Potassium Hydroxide is in soap,
And Ammonium Hydroxide in window cleaner.
When you add an indicator,
Acid or bases change colours,’
Litmus is the famous of them all,
Even turmeric and china rose
When we mix bases and acids,
They affect each other,
They neutralise each other
And don’t even bother.
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Thank you very much for the lesson (again). I quite enjoyed it!!!! Delightfully presented, Professor Sudarshan!
When we mix together
We're always at fault
Acids & Bases just
Produce a nice salt
NaOH and HCl
do produce heat
But a nice salt as well !
NaCl adds savour
To flavourless food
Without it food's tasteless
too bland and too crude.
So next time we try
To cut someone to size
Let's be acids & bases
and just NEUTRALISE
Thanks for sharing - BRIAN
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