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A student crushes some calcium supplement tablets and dissolves them in water. The resulting solution feels slippery and has a slightly bitter taste. Are the supplement tablets most likely to be acids or bases?

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Answer:

bases

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Answer is: the supplement tablets most likely to be bases.
Acids and bases have opposite properties and have the ability to neutralize each other. Acids taste sour, give sharp stinging pain in a wound and react with metals to produce hydrogen gas.
Bases t
urn red litmus paper blue and acids turn blue litmus paper red.


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