I mean, I can rattle off the names of maybe a hundred acids (I've taught chemistry for 13 years), but only relatively few bases: ammonia, LiOH, NaOH, KOH, RbOH, CsOH; calcium, magnesium, strontium, barium, and radium hydroxides, plus methylamine, ethylamine, etc., plus the amino acids, which can act as either acids OR bases.
It's hard to think of a chemical nastier than radium hydroxide.
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