Salts and electrolysis

Acids and Alkalis

Name an alkali

What is a base?

What ions do all acids form when we add them to water?

What ions do all alkalis form when we add them to water?

What does the state symbol (s) stand for?

Making salts from metals or bases

What does the reaction between an acid and a metal produce?
What does the state symbol (g) stand for?

What is formed when an acid plus a base react?

Name the salt formed when dilute sulfuric acid reacts with zinc oxide

What does the state symbol (l) stand for?

Making salts from solutions

Write down a general equation for the reaction between an acid and an alkali
Name a salt which is used as a fertiliser to provide crops with nitrogen

Electrolysis
What is electrolysis?

What do we call the substance broken down by electrolysis?

Which electrode do positive ions move towards during electrolysis?

Which electrode do negative ions move towards during electrolysis?

Changes at the electrodes

How do negatively charged ions become neutral atoms in electrolysis?

How do positively charged ions become neutral atoms in electrolysis?

The extraction of aluminium

Why is aluminium used to make overhead power cables?

Why must aluminium oxide be molten for electrolysis to take place?

Are the oxide ions reduced or oxidised in the electrolysis of molten aluminium
oxide?
Electrolysis of brine
What are the three products made when we electrolyse brine?

What is chlorine used for?

What is hydrogen used for?

What is sodium hydroxide used for?

Electroplating
Name four metals that we can use to electroplate another metal
What is the method of electroplating? Write your answer in a step by step format