(a) What is meant by the term acid salt? Give one example. (b) State the reason why an all-glass apparatus must be used for the laboratory preparation of co...

Assessment: WAEC SSCE - Chemistry - 1992 (Essay) Subject: Chemistry

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(a) What is meant by the term acid salt? Give one example.

(b) State the reason why an all-glass apparatus must be used for the laboratory preparation of concentrated trioxonitrate (V) acid.

Answer Details

(a) Acid salt

An acid salt is a salt formed by the partial replacement of the ionizable (replaceable) hydrogen atoms of a polybasic acid by a metal or ammonium ion, so it still contains replaceable hydrogen. Example: sodium hydrogen tetraoxosulphate(VI), NaHSO4 (sodium hydrogen carbonate, NaHCO3, is also acceptable).

(b) Why an all-glass apparatus is used

Concentrated trioxonitrate(V) acid, and its hot vapour, is a strong, corrosive oxidizing agent that attacks and corrodes rubber, cork and metal connections. Glass is chemically unreactive towards the acid, so an all-glass apparatus prevents corrosion, leakage and contamination of the acid.

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