Specially in case of laws penal, they ought to have care, that that which was meant for terror, be not turned into rigor; and that they bring not upon the people, that shower whereof the Scripture speaketh, Pluet super eos laqueos; for penal laws pressed, are a shower of snares upon the people.
An acid (from the Latin acidus/acÄre meaning sour) is a chemical substance whose aqueous solutions are characterized by a sour taste, the ability to turn blue litmus red, and the ability to react with bases and certain metals (like calcium) to form salts.Aqueous solutions of acids have a pH of less than 7.n water each of these essentially ionizes 100%. The stronger an acid is, the more easily it loses a proton, H + . Two key factors that contribute to the ease of deprotonation are the polarity of the HâA bond and the size of atom A, which determines the strength of the HâA bond.
An alkali is any substance that produces OH-ions in water. Compare this with the definition of an definition of an acid. OH-ions are called hydroxide ions. An alkali has a pH of more than 7. substance that will neutralise an acid, but does not dissolve in water, is called a base. For example, copper(II) oxide, iron(II) oxide and zinc carbonate are bases, they do not dissolve in water (see salts made from bases or carbonates). Any base that dissolves in water is called an alkali.