Acids and Bases Have Two Different Faces

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Acids and Bases Have Two Different Faces

• Song by Michael Offut

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• Acids and bases have two different faces,
• Two different personalities,

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• And you gotta find out what theyre all about,
• If you want to learn chemistry

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• Now the first thing you got get straight in you
  head,
• Acids turn blue litmus paper to red,

Acid
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• They react with metals with awesome power,
• They neutralize bases and taste very sour.

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Base

• Bases are different from acids, its true,
• Bases turn red litmus paper to blue.

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• They neutralize acids, feel slippery on skin,
• They taste sorta bitter, and are called alkaline.

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• Acids and bases have two different faces,
• Two different personalities,

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• And you gotta find out what theyre all about,
• If you want to learn chemistry

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• Well, theres even more to this wonderful tale,
• Something we call a pH scale,

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• It numbers from zero up to fourteen,
• Those are powers of ten, if you know what I mean.
• 1..2..3..4
• 10-1.10-210-310-4

1015
1030
106
10-20
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• When the pH is 7, then its a case,
• Where the sample is neither an acid nor base.

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• But less that 7? . . . Its an acid we say.
• More than 7? . . . Its a base all the way.

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• Acids and bases have two different faces,
• Two different personalities,

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• And you gotta find out what theyre all about,
• If you want to learn chemistry

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• Acids and bases? . . . now why should you
  care?
• Cause acids and bases are everywhere.

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• You put them on salads, and they get in the rain,
• They settle your tummy, and clean out your drain.

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• So the next time youre sitting under some shade,
• And youre sipping a glass full of real lemonade,

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• Youll notice the sour taste and think in your
  head,
• I bet it turns blue litmus to red.

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• Acids and bases have two different faces,
• Two different personalities,

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• And you gotta find out what theyre all about,
• If you want to learn chemistry