A student crushes some calcium supplement tablets and dissolves them in water. The resulting solution feels slippery and has a slightly bitter taste. Are the supplement tablets most likely to be acids or bases?

Answer is: the supplement tablets most likely to be bases.

Acids and bases have opposite properties and have the ability to neutralize each other. Acids taste sour, g ive sharp stinging pain in a wound and r eact with metals to produce hydrogen gas.

Bases t urn red litmus paper blue and acids t urn blue litmus paper red.