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What products form when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide?

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sodium sulfate — acid–base reaction Sodium sulfate, also called Glauber's salt, is, like other salts, the product of an acid-base reaction.

When hydrochloric acid (HCl) reacts with sodium hydroxide (NaOH), the process is a neutralization reaction that produces water and a salt. Specifically, the reaction between these two substances yields water ( $H_{2} O$ ) and sodium chloride ( $N a C l$ ), which is common table salt.123

The chemical equation for this reaction is:

$H C l + N a O H \to H_{2} O + N a C l$

In this process, the hydrogen ions from the acid and the hydroxide ions from the base combine to form water, while the remaining sodium cation and chloride anion form the dissolved salt.13