Chemistry
Grade-10
Easy
Question
Bases are
- Sweet in taste
- Sour in taste
- Bitter in taste
- None of the above
Hint:
Bases taste bitter.
The correct answer is: Bitter in taste
Bases release a hydroxide ion (OH –) into water. The more ions that are released the stronger the base. Bases react with acids. When an acid and a base react, they form salt.
The chemical properties of bases are: Bases turns the colour of litmus from red to blue. They taste bitter. Bases lose their basicity when mixed with acids.
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