General Harardous properties of acids/alkalis? Please help...coursework tomorrow!

[futureless]

Hello I've got my chemistry coursework under exam conditions tommorow and I've got to say what the hazards of the unknown acid/alkali in the titration may be... Could you give some general dangers/hazards of acids/alkalis...thanks. I'm much grateful:-)

[RyanJ]

Hello I've got my chemistry coursework under exam conditions tommorow and I've got to say what the hazards of the unknown acid/alkali in the titration may be... Could you give some general dangers/hazards of acids/alkalis...thanks. I'm much grateful:-)

 

Acids and alkalis are generally corrosive and how corrosive depends on the strength of the alkali or acid.

 

Acids tend to react with metals a lot...

 

Can you be a bit more specific for what your looking for?

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones

[futureless]

merci, thats all I was really looking for, any other common dangerous props of acids/alkalis

[RyanJ]

merci, thats all I was really looking for, any other common dangerous props of acids/alkalis

 

Not really unless you are specific, the most common is that they are corrosive when concentrated

 

here are a few examples:

 

Alkalis:

1. [ce]LiOH[/ce]
   
2. [ce]NaOH[/ce]
   
3. [ce]KOH[/ce]
   

 

Acids (In solution):

1. [ce]HCl[/ce]
   
2. [ce]H2SO4[/ce]
   
3. [ce]HNO3[/ce]
   

 

^ Above are links, click on them to see their MSDS data sheet

 

As you can see there is a general consensus towards them being corrosive.

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones