If you add sodium hydroxide to an acid does it make the acid more/less soluble?
Answer:
Soluble means how easily it can be dissolved in water. As far as I know you dont really have to dissolve an acid in water seeing as how its already a liquid. Goink!
i think it does not affect the solubility of the acid. It only changes the pH of the solution.
yes and no. depends how u define soluble.
yes, because if u have a weak acid, which is not completely dissociated in water, and u add base, the acid will react with it, causing more acid to dissociate, a.k.a. dissolve.
and NO, because what u get as a result is a chemical reaction of the acid with the base, meaning, u have no more acid in your solution, but just the product of the reaction acid+base, which is salt.
and of course, some organic acids, like phtalic acid, are not well soluble in water. adding base will make the floating acid disappear, but as already said, not as a result of it dissolving, but of it reacting with the base.
which means that visually, it will be gone , or dissolved, but u still will have no acid in the solution.
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