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Answers for 3.3 Review Sheet (Describing Acids and Bases): 1. Sour 2. Bitter 3. Corrosive to magnesium, zinc, and iron; eats them away and produces bubbles of hydrogen gas 4. Doesn't react with metals 5. Produces CO2 6. Doesn't react with carbonates 7. Red 8. Blue 9. Corrosive describes a substance that can eat away certain materials 10. The substance is an acid. 11. An indicator is a substance that turns different colors in an acid or base. 12. Bases are bitter, turn litmus paper blue, and do not react with metals or carbonates.