ROLE OF ACIDS, BASES AND SALTS IN OUR DAILY LIFE
We use in our daily life a large number of substances such as lemon,tamarind,common salt, sugar, and vinegar. Do they have the same taste? Let us recall the tastes of some edible substances listed in Table 5.1. If you have not tasted any of these substances taste it now and enter the result in Table 5.1.
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Substance |
Taste (sour/bitter/ any other) |
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Lemon juice |
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Orange juice |
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Vinegar |
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Curd |
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Tamarind (imli) |
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Sugar |
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Common salt |
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Amla |
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Baking soda |
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Grapes |
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Unripe mango |
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Cucumber |
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Table 5.1:
You find that some of these substances taste sour, some taste bitter, some taste sweet and some taste salty.
Source: This topic is taken from NCERT TEXTBOOK