in chemistry can base burn?
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in terms of concentration a base is worse than acid.  eg a 2M HCl solution will bearly nip heathly skin on contact, 2M sodium hydroxide will start turning your skin into soap within a matter of seconds.
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HNO3\n\nIf you couldn't answer this question, you must be a real noob in chemistry!!  Well, for other times, here's the way to differentiate betwee acids and bases.\n\nAcids:   acids can be easily identified by the hydrogens they contain.  Most acids have their hydrogen in the beginning of their formula.  HNO3 can be easily identified as an acid: it is commonly called nitric acid.\n\nBases:  most bases can be identified by the (OH) group at the end of their formula... therefore, we can immediately label b) and d) as bases.   \n\nNow here, NH3 is kind of tough to define with the definitions given above.   I believe that the proper explanation is out of your scope for know (from what I can deduce).   So, you'll learn that later on.  But for your info, NH3 is ammonia, the stuff they use in cleaning fluids, and it is basic.\n\nHope this helps.
96088
Yes, you can burn. It is not a sunscreen.
1049240
More intense vibratory movements from the molecules mean more thermal energy transfer to the matter which become in contact with it.  So you can burn your skin if the object you touch is really too hot!
789348
This is a strange question because acid-base reactions are never redox, so there is never any such thing as an acid base reduction. The reaction between acids and bases is called neutralisation.
761488
Mass can only be converted directly to energy in very small quantities in nuclear reactions (like at the core of the Sun, or in particle accelerators). Burning something only releases the chemical energy in it, while leaving the atoms themselves alone. Since all the atoms are the same before the burn as after it, there are no nuclear reactions and E=mc^2 still holds.
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Water is what you get when you burn hydrogen. After combustion the bonds between the H and O atoms are so strong, that no more burning happens.\n\nWhen you burn any molecule that contains hydrogen, like CH_4,\nnatural gas, the same thing happens. All the hydrogen ends up in water molecules.
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I forget my organic chem but\n\nammonia, calcium carbonate - a base is used to neutralize an acid - a base donates electrons and an acid collects them (i think, or vs/vs) \n\nboth can be used to separate other chemicals, or remove chemicals from mixtures\n\nAcids are often used as a catalyst to start a reaction like when producing explosives - and can be very dangerous\n\ncommon ex - bleach(acid) mixied with ammonia(base) produce a poisonous gas and heat which can actually cause sever damage to lungs
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I don't think it should be.\nBetter to say "chemical a was poured into beaker b and the result was the production of smoke.....etc" than, "I put chemical a into beaker b and I saw smoke come out"
865969
Yes they react, for example:\n\nCH3COOCH2CH3 + HCOOH  <==> HCOOCH2CH3 + CH3COOH
768661
He could apply a base to the letters.  Acids and bases are opposite and neutralize one another.  If he added the correct base, the acid would be neutralized and would not erode the letters.
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Can't answer this one accurately with the limited information you gave. What is being burned? Under what conditions is it being burned?  When you're talking of by products as opposed to products, the composition of the combustible material enters the equation. If you are burning a pure hydrocarbon fuel such as methane the products  are water vapor and carbon dioxide. Depending upon the conditions under which it was burned you might also get carbon monoxide. If the combustible material contained sulfur, nitrogen or other elements you might get gases such as sulfur dioxide or nitrous oxide as well.
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well in chemistry ...you have to test it out for an instance: what will happen to sulfur if i add water to it? It becomes a dangerous acid.\n\nwhat happens if i add water onto fire? it turns off. remember always to b careful
1040931
being partially methane, yes. however the concentration of methane is low enough on average that actually making it burn is at best a difficult task.
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In the Brønsted-Lowry classification, any chemical species, ionic or molecular, capable of accepting or receiving a proton (hydrogen ion) from another substance. The other substance acts as an acid in giving up the proton. A substance may act as a base, then, only in the presence of an acid. The greater the tendency to accept a proton, the stronger the base. The hydroxyl ion acts as a strong base. Substances that ionize in aqueous solutions to produce the hydroxyl ion (OH), such as potassium hydroxide (KOH) and barium hydroxide [Ba(OH)2], are also conventionally called bases.\n\nAny compound having highly basic properties, strong acrid taste, and ability to neutralize acids. Aqueous solutions of alkalies are high in hydroxyl ions, have a pH above 7, and turn litmus paper from red to blue. Caustic alkalies include sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), the sixth-largest-volume chemical produced in the United States, and potassium hydroxide. They are extremely destructive to human tissue; external burns should be washed with large amounts of water. The milder alkalies are the carbonates of the alkali metals; these include the industrially important sodium carbonate (soda ash) and potassium carbonate (potash), as well as the carbonates of lithium, rubidium, and cesium, and the volatile ammonium hydroxide. Sodium bicarbonate is a still milder alkaline material.\n\nIn Summary base is a general word (carbonates, hydroxides ...of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, Transition metals) and alkali is used specifically for carbonates, hydroxides... of alkali group metals.
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Well this is not a typical acid-base reaction in aqueous solution.\n\nThis is cooking the hell out of the calcium carbonate.  I guess it is more thermodynamically stable as calcium oxide.  The carbonate moiety is not stable in that heat.  An oxyen stays with the calcium and the carbon and oxygen reassemble as CO2 as they leave the compound.\n\nedit\n\nThink you would get same pattern with other alkaline-earths/polyatomic ion compounds like BaCO3 or even alkali metals and transition metal compounds, although with different molar quantities like Li2(CO3).  Sulfates, chlorates would probably do the same thing.
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burning is atmospheric OXIDATION