JEE Main Chemistry question

Chemistry Chemistry in Everyday Life JEE Main

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Ordinary soaps are defined as:

(A)Al salts of higher fatty acids
(B)Na salts of lower fatty acids
(C)Na salts of higher fatty acidsCorrect
(D)Mg salts of lower fatty acids

Answer: (C)

Solution

Ordinary (hard) soaps are sodium salts of long-chain (higher) fatty acids such as palmitic, stearic or oleic acid, produced by saponification of fats/oils with NaOH. Aluminium and

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