Consider this reaction: acid + base salt + water. What type of reaction is this?

Ahydrolysis
Bcombination
Cdecomposition
Dneutralization
Ecombustion

Verified Answer :

Acid + base ---> Salt + water is a neutralization reaction

Answer: Option (d) is the correct answer.

Explanation:

A reaction in which hydrogen ions from an acid completely react with the hydroxide ions of a base and results in the formation of salt and water is known as a neutralization reaction.

For example, \(HCl + NaOH \rightarrow NaCl + H_{2}O\) is a neutralization reaction.

Therefore, we can conclude that \(acid + base \rightarrow salt + water\) is a neutralization reaction.