Acids, bases and what they do

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• 2 practice tasks with hints and worked answers
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1. Acids, bases and what they do
2. Salts: types, behaviour and uses
3. Indicators from the lab and from the market
4. Strong, weak, concentrated and dilute
5. Acids in digestion, blood and teeth
6. Bases on the farm and on a sting
7. Neutralisation in the lab: salt plus water
8. Acid with carbonates and with metals
9. Naming salts and the types of salt
10. Making copper sulphate crystals
11. Precipitation of insoluble salts
12. Salts in air, in Kenya and in the environment