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Sodium hydroxide can react with …………… acid to form an acid salt.

  1. Nitric acid
  2. Hydrochloric acid
  3. Acetic acid
  4. Sulphuric acid

Acids Bases Salts

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Sulphuric acid

Reason — An acid salt is formed when a dibasic or tribasic acid is only partially neutralised by a base.

  • Nitric acid (HNO3) and hydrochloric acid (HCl) are monobasic acids → they can form only normal salts, not acid salts.
  • Acetic acid (CH3COOH) is also monobasic → only forms sodium acetate.
  • Sulphuric acid (H2SO4) is dibasic → with sodium hydroxide (NaOH), it can form an acid salt, sodium hydrogen sulphate (NaHSO₄), on partial neutralisation.

So, sodium hydroxide reacts with sulphuric acid to form an acid salt.

NaOH + H2SO4 ⟶ NaHSO4 + H2O

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