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Title: What will happen if you add sodium hydroxide to vinegar? Post by: michele12 on Feb 15, 2013 What will happen if you add sodium hydroxide to vinegar? And what is the balanced chemical reaction?
Could someone please explain this to me? Title: What will happen if you add sodium hydroxide to vinegar? Post by: smooth15 on Feb 15, 2013 A neutralization reaction would take place because you are reacting an acid (vinegar = acetic acid) with a base (NaOH).
The balanced equation looks like this: CH3COOH + NaOH ===> CH3COO-Na+ + HOH Hope this helped, if so vote this best answer please :) Title: What will happen if you add sodium hydroxide to vinegar? Post by: rivs9 on Feb 15, 2013 Content hidden
Title: What will happen if you add sodium hydroxide to vinegar? Post by: ilikecrackers on Feb 15, 2013 NaOH + CH3COOH>>>> CH3COONa(s) + H2O(l)
Acetic acid=vinegar=CH3COOH NaOH=sodium hydroxide CH3COONa=sodium acetate Title: What will happen if you add sodium hydroxide to vinegar? Post by: rivers.butterfly on Feb 15, 2013 well, vinegar is basically a dilute acetic acid (HC2H3O2) <-- those are supposed to be little number, but you get the idea.
You just do a double replacement reaction in which an acid combines with a base and formes salt and water as a result. HC2H3O2 + NaOH --> H2O + NaC2H3O2 (since it's an aqueous solution, H+ ions and C2H3O2- ions are floating around. You add Na+ ions and OH- ions floating around, since NaOH is an aqueous solution, and then positive ions combine with negative ions in a double-replacement reaction). |