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When HNO3 reacts with NaOH, what is formed?

Bruce A McIntyre  Follow

HNO3 + NaOH⮕ NaNO3 + H2O

When nitric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide, the salt sodium nitrate and H2O are produced.

It’s a neutralization reaction.

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Alisha Talks  Follow

As HNO3 is strong acid and KOH is a strong base, they both undergo complete neutralisation to form salt KNO3 and water H2O.

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Amos Patrick  Follow

When HNO3 reacts with NaOH the product that is formed is NaNO3 which is salt and H2O which is water.

You can write it as:

HNO3 + NaOH = NaNO3 + H2O

So this is basically a Neutralization reaction between nitric acid(HNO3) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH) which is strong base, so to find out the product of this reaction we need to further breakdown into its ionic form that is :

HNO3 = [H^+] + [NO3^-]

NaOH= [Na^+] + [OH^-]

If we put it together we get

[H^+] + [NO3^-] + [Na^+] + [OH^-] = [H^+] + [OH^-] +[Na^+] +[NO3^-]

that gives us the product [H^+] + [OH^-] +[Na^+] +[NO3^-] which is H+OH =H2O and Na+NO3 =NaNO3

So the product formed is water (H2O) and Sodium Nitrate (NaNO3).

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David Wilmshurst  Follow

It's simply acid base substitution reaction.

HNO3 + NaOH = NaNO3 + H2O.

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Abdullah  Follow

Water and sodium nitrate.

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Daniel Toth  Follow

HNO3 + NaOH = NaNO3 + H2O

That is Sodium nitrate and water, and if the two reactants completely neutralise each other, a clear and colorless solution of the products with a pH of 7.0.

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Cary Mcdonald  Follow

Sodium hydroxide is a base and nitric acid is (as you may deduce from the name) an acid. Acid-base neutralisation reactions[1] are one of the simplest and widely known types of chemical reactions:-

base + acid → salt + water.

The balanced reaction is:

HNO3 + NaOH → NaNO3 + H2O

In reality, the nitrate & sodium ions don’t actively participate in the reaction - the hydroxide ions from the base react with hydronium ions from the acid to produce water.

Footnotes

[1] Acid–base reaction - Wikipedia

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Bella Jackie's Space  Follow

NaNO3+H2O will be form….

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