Big problemin chemistry

[Ahmed-Azurus]

please read this equation thoroughly

carbonic acid + sodium hydroxide -------> sodium carbonate + water

QUESTION
is sodium carbonate a base or a salt

Reason for being a base : it is a metal carbonate
Reason for being an acid: it is a product of reaction between an alkali and an acid

please give ur opinion

 

[waleedsmz]

metal carbonates are not bases.
acid+alkali= salt + water

it's a salt

 

[larina]

its a salt!!
metal oxides are bases not metal carbonates

 

[karimehab]

it is a salt Sodium Carbonate but it reacts with acid to give Salt+Carbondioxide+Water

 

[Ahmed-Azurus]

hey people if u checked the chemistry igcse book . bases are proton acceptors. they can be metal oxides, hydroxides, carbonates,or hydrogen carbonate

btw is calcium oxide soluble or insoluble