What happens when metal react with base?
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What happens when metal react with base?
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The base has a bitter taste and a slippery texture. A base dissolved in water is called an alkali. When chemically reacting with acids such compounds produce salts. Bases are known to turn blue on red litmus paper.
When a base reacts with a metal, hydrogen gas is produced. It burns with a pop sound when a burning candle is brought near the mouth of the test tube.
Metal + Base → Hydrogen + Salt
Example
Sodium hydroxide as it reacts with zinc metal gives hydrogen gas & sodium zincate.
2 NaOH + Zn → H2 + Na2ZnO2
QUESTION ⤵️
What happens when metal react with base?
ANSWER ⤵️
Acid reacts with base (alkali) to produce salt with hydrogen gas but in general bases do not react with metals and release hydrogen gas.
example:::-➡
2NaOH +Zn➡➡➡ H2+ Na2ZnO2
(sodium hydroxide as it reacts with zinc metal gives hydrogen gas in sodium zincate).