Baking soda can be used to clean the precipitate off of the terminals of a car battery

Select one:

a.

because it neutralizes the acid precipitate on the terminals.

b.

baking soda would cause the precipitate to be converted into an acid.

c.

baking soda would have no effect on the precipitate.

d.

because it is an acid that reacts positively with the battery acid precipitate.