- Sour in taste.
- Turns blue litmus paper into red.
Uses of acids:
- As food:
- Citric acid: lemon or oranges.
- lactic acid: sour milk.
- Tartaric acid: grapes.
- Acetic acid: vinegar.
- Carbonic acid: Aerated drinks.
- Oxalic acids: Tomato, wood sorrel.
- Hydrochloric acid is used in digestion.
- Nitric acid is used in the purification of gold and silver.
- Oxalic acid is used to remove rust spots.
- Boric acid is a constituent of eye wash.
- Formic acid is present in red ants.
- Uric acid is present in the urine of mammals.
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