I remember back in my senior year of high school we were doing a lab on acids and bases.
I happened to have 2 solutions: HCl and NaOH.
They were the same exact concentration each.
If I were to mix equal amounts of both of them i would get salty water. This should be safe to drink as those 2 are strong in their respective nature they dissociate completely into ions (none of the acid or bass remains at all).
So I guess the question: is it safe to drink?
In: Chemistry
In reality all the dissociated ions won’t perfectly react in a 1:1 ratio most of the time. The result of neutralization of a strong acid and a strong base is a salt and water, which theoretically would be safe to drink. Unfortunately, in almost every single case you will have trace amounts of excess base or excess acid.
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