📄️ Simple salt exchanges
One of the first ideas that is learnt in chemistry is a salt exchange reaction.
📄️ All about salt
Salts are interesting!
📄️ Soap Saponification
A soap is defined as an organic compound with a hydrophillic head and hydrophobic tail. This is usually achieved through the synthesis of salts with longer alkyl chains. Commercially (and in the food industry), it is achieved by saponifying oils/fats. Thus, saponification is the conversion of oil to soap (fatty acid salt) and is expressed by the chemical reaction: