What is the difference between acid,base,salt, amphoteric and neutral?

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what is the difference between acid,base,salt, amphoteric and neutral compounds ? How all these properties are related to pH scale? Could anyone explain in detail pls?
 
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These terms can be found in any chemistry textbook or the IUPAC Gold Book, which is available readily online.
 

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