This document provides an overview of acids and bases including:
- Acids have a sour taste and react with metals and carbonates/bicarbonates. Bases have a bitter taste and feel slippery.
- Arrhenius acids produce H+ ions in water while Arrhenius bases produce OH- ions. Brønsted acids are proton donors and bases are proton acceptors.
- Water autoionizes into H+ and OH- ions. The ion product of water (Kw) relates the concentrations of H+ and OH- ions in solution. The pH scale measures hydrogen ion concentration.