Question

Compounds such as alcohols and glucose also contain hydrogen, but are not categorized as acids. Describe an activity to prove it.

Answer 1

Experiment: Fix two nails on the cork and keep this in $100ml$ beaker. Two nails are fixed to $6$ volt battery, bulb and switch. Then pour some dilute $HCl$ in the breaker and switch on the current. Repeat the experiment separately with glucose and alcohol solutions.

Observation: Bulb glows in $HCl$ solution but do not glows in glucose solution.

Result: $HCl\to H^{+}$ and $Cl-ions.$

These ions conduct electricity and bulb glows. By this experiment we conclude that all acids contain Hydrogen.