Chemistry help please. Thanks!

The most common ion for an acid is?
My guess: hydrogen. Am I right?

Neutralization produces salt and?
My guess: acid or water? Which one is correct?

Thanks for the help. I jus need to clarify before the final.

The most common ion for acid is the hydronium ion H3O+. Many people abbreviate this as H+ however, so you are partially correct! Note however this is only true for acid/base reactions in aqueous (water) solvent. There are a lot of reactions that occur in non-aqueous media as well though.

e.g. H-Br + H2O --> (H3O+) + Br- where the acid in solution is H3O+ because HBr, being a strong acid completely dissociates in water.

A neutralization reaction creates salt and water as products. for example:

e.g. NaOH + HBr -->H2O + NaBr Where NaBr is sodium bromide, a salt!

1) The hydrogen ion H+.

2) Salt + water.


If the answer was acid, it wouldn't have been neutralized would it?