Identifying Acidic and Basic Salts

[Jessica Castellanos]

How do you identify acidic and basic salts? Is there certain rules?

[Rebekah Alfred 1J]

You identify acidic and basic salts by identifying what kind of ions they have. If a salt contains a cation of a strong base and an anion of a weak acid (like NaOCl), the anion (ClO-) will acts as a base and increase the pH (making the salt basic).

[Ellen Amico 2L]

You can also look at the ions and see if they're conjugate acids/bases of strong or weak acids/bases. For example, if the ions are the conjugate acid and base of a strong acid and a strong base, then you will know the salt is neutral.

[Shrayes Raman]

There is a whole section in the Textbook dedicated to the helpful rules... You might find that helpful