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Question
Explain salt hydrolysis.
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Solution
The reaction between a salt and water that produces an acid or a base is called salt hydrolysis, or hydrolysis. By hydrolysing the salt, we can identify its parent acid and parent base.
For example : \[\ce{NaCl + H2O -> Na+ + Cl-}\]
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