This lesson was jam packed with important information. It was a lot to take in, but I think I understood it pretty well.
The products are the same in Arrhenius acid/base reactions, a salt and a water. The strength of the salt is determined by the strengths of the parent acid and base. The compound "salt" is formed from the anion of an acid and the cation of the base.
Water can act as an acid because it can donate a proton, and it can act as a base because it can accept a proton to form the hydronium ion. An equilibrium is established in the process called, the auto-ionization of water. We then had to calculate the H+ and OH- required for certain examples, which was a bit easier than I thought it was going to be. An overall pretty good lesson.
Details About Arrhenius Acids/Bases
Very Useful Documents Over Calculating H+ and OH-
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