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You can take sodium chloride to be pretty much neutral. In water, it dissociates into sodium and chlorine ions. The chlorine acts as a weak Bronsted base (It's the conjugate base of HCl), but the sodium acts a weak bronsted acid (It's the conjugate acid of NaOH).

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Is NaCl an acid or a base?

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Why is HCl and NaCl a good buffer?

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Equations that contained strong acid strong base that would equal to water and salt?

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Is NaOH and NaCl a buffer system?

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What does a general acid base reaction look like?

This is a strong base/acid neutralization reaction with a product of salt and water. NaOH + HCl --> NaCl + H2O


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Why NACL solution is neutral?

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