if you had potasium and an acid what would happen

Question: if you had potasium and an acid what would happen
- Keywords:
  acid,
  chemical,
  chemistry,
  reaction
Asked by connor1398 to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 19 Mar 2012.
- Lena Ciric answered on 19 Mar 2012:
  
  They would react together and you’d get a potassium salt and hydrogen. For example with sulphuric acid, you’d get potassium sulphate and with hydrochloric acid you’d get potassium chloride.
- Sean Murphy answered on 20 Mar 2012:
  
  Potassium can react with hydrochloric acid violently to form Potassium Chloride and hydrogen.
  
  Potassium can also react with water, check this out:

Question: if you had potasium and an acid what would happen