Chemistry Music Video 25: Acids And Bases

This song differentiates between Arrhenius Acids and Bases and describes titration. All music and lyrics copyright 2005 by Mark Rosengarten. All rights reserved.

Lyrics:

Acids and bases, in life you have a place
Acids have a hydrogen, hydroxide for a base

Acids give off H+ when in water they are stirred
Forming H3O+, hydroniums the word
The more hydroniums there are, the lower pH gets
All because the silly acid had to go get wet!

Reactive metals like Ca and Fe oxidize
When reacted with an acid they can really shrink in size
Gaseous hydrogen is formed as well as salt in fact
But metals like Au, Ag and Cu wont react!

Acids and bases, in life you have a place
Acids have a hydrogen, hydroxide for a base

Bases yield hydroxide, OH- how we write
When dissolved in water, and disappear from sight
The more hydroxide ions, the higher pH slopes
The more slippery it feels as it turns your skin to soap!

Fats are hydrolyzed by bases, turns them into soap
Which can be fashioned into bars or dangled from a rope
Bases form when active metals H2O are placed
Sodium forms sodium hydroxide, a strong base!

Acids and bases, in life you have a place
Acids have a hydrogen, hydroxide for a base

Put the two together and you get some real neat stuff
Its called neutralization, I can never get enough
It makes water molecules and salt with no regrets
Titrations what you call it when you mix them with burets

MaVa = MbVb can be used to calculate
Concentrations of an acid or a base when you titrate
Just remember that Ma or Mb will get multiplied
By the number of each ion by which theyre identified!

Acids and bases, in life you have a place
Acids have a hydrogen, hydroxide for a base

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• chemistry
• rosengarten
• arrhenius
• acid
• acids
• base
• bases
• pH
• titration

[lexydramaqueen]

Lol that was AWSUM!!! Thanks so much for all ur vids I am doing much better in chemistry now that i watch ur videos !!!!

[MagmaDrag00n]

best one ever no question about it

[blueyoshistarr]

ouch. I think my ears are bleeding. XD

[BengalsBlitz]

lool it makes it a lot easier for me specially cause i love country music and this sounds like one and i can easily get it stuck in my head

[kargush1]

@lexydramaqueen Well you're obviously dumb as fuck

[peachylad04]

i got test for tomorrow. i hope this helps! i nevedr get an A for chem:(

[aussiebabe2183]

good thing i sung the chorus of this song in chem and everyone thinks im phyco....:D

[jebj12345]

lulz

[minorballer]

acids and bases in life u av a place...acids have a hydrogen.. hydroxide for a base...

bap bap!!!

[PrincessLatinaStars1]

@mattmontgomer16 the soap matter or atoms cannot be destroyed they are just rearranged in a different form; the water dissolved the soap making it like soap water.

[PrincessLatinaStars1]

too bad i haven't found these and withdrew from my class in time oh well A to B here I come..... and six class semester or an extra 2 classes to pay for .....