Sourabh Monga Solutions for Chapter: Acids, Bases and Salts, Exercise 5: SELF-EVALUATION TEST

For making cake, baking powder is taken. If at home your mother uses baking soda instead of baking powder in cake, how will it affect the taste of cake and why?
 

How can baking soda be converted into baking powder?
 

What is the role of tartaric acid added to baking soda?

What can be observed when few pieces of marble are dropped in dilute hydrochloric acid, contained in a test tube? Write the reaction involved.

Name two gas that can be prepared in the laboratory using dilute ${\mathrm{H}}_2{\mathrm{SO}}_4$. Write equations for their formation.

What are strong acids and weak acids? Give an example of each.

While diluting an acid, why is it recommended that the acid should be added to water and not water to acid?

A dry pellet of a common base $\mathrm{B}$ when kept in open absorbs moisture & turns sticky. The compound is also formed by chlor-alkali process. Identity $\mathrm{B}$. What type of reaction occurs when $\mathrm{B}$ is treated with dilute $\mathrm{HCl}$? Write the chemical equation involved.