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Salt Hydrolysis
In order to understand what kind of hydrolysis a salt will undergo, follow these simple steps:
- Salts are composed of two parts, cations(+vely charged ions) and anions(-vely charged ions).
- In a salt, cation generally comes from the base and anion comes from the acid.
- Salts formed from strong acids and weak bases undergo cationic hydrolysis to give an acidic solution.
- Salts formed from weak acids and strong bases will hence undergo anionic hydrolysis to give a basic solution.
- Salts formed from strong acids and strong bases will not undergo hydrolysis.
- Salts formed from weak acids and weak bases will undergo Cationic -Anionic hydrolysis(As both Cations and Anions will undergo hydrolysis).
- The pH and can easily be calculated by the following table:

A weak acid has the dissociation constant , It forms a salt in reaction with alkali. The degree of hydrolysis of solution if is:
In the aqueous solution of sodium acetate the ion that undergoes hydrolysis is :
An aqueous solution of salt is alkaline. This shows that salt is made from: