Can anyone tell me about sulfuric acid in shampoo/soap?

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The term sulfate is used in chemistry to denote a salt of sulfuric acid. ... This is the sulfate type which can be found in many cleaning and hygiene products including shampoos. The main reasons why it is added to shampoos are because this sulfate produces foam and is a powerful detergent.

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Ammonia is produced by the following reaction. 3H2(g) N2(g) Right arrow. 2NH3(g) When 7. 00 g of hydrogen react with 70. 0 g of

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In the ammonia production process given by the reaction 3H₂(g) + N₂(g) → 2NH₃(g), when 7.00 g of hydrogen react with 70.0 g of nitrogen, hydrogen is considered the limiting reactant because 7.5 moles of hydrogen would be needed to consume the available nitrogen (option 1).

The reaction is the following:

3H₂(g) + N₂(g) → 2NH₃(g) (1)

To know why hydrogen is considered the limiting reactant, we need to calculate the number of moles of nitrogen and hydrogen with the following equation:

$n = \frac{m}{M}$

Where:

m: is the mass

M: is the molar mass

For hydrogen we have:

$n_{H_{2}} = \frac{m}{M} = \frac{7.00 g}{2.016 g/mol} = 3.47 \:moles$

And for nitrogen:

$n_{N_{2}} = \frac{m}{M} = \frac{70.0 g}{28.013 g/mol} = 2.50 \:moles$

We can see in reaction (1) that 3 moles of hydrogen react with 1 mol of nitrogen, so the number of hydrogen moles needed to react nitrogen is:

$n_{H_{2}} = \frac{3\:moles\:H_{2}}{1\:moles\:N_{2}}*n_{N_{2}} = \frac{3\:moles\:H_{2}}{1\:moles\:N_{2}}*2.50 \:moles = 7.50 \:moles$

Since we have 3.47 moles of hydrogen and we need 7.50 moles to react with all the mass of nitrogen, the limiting reactant is hydrogen.

We can find the number of ammonia moles produced with the limiting reactant (hydrogen) konwing that 3 moles of hydrogen produces 2 moles of ammonia, so:

$n_{NH_{3}} = \frac{2\:moles\:NH_{3}}{3\:moles\:H_{2}}*n_{H_{2}} = \frac{2\:moles\:NH_{3}}{3\:moles\:H_{2}}*3.47 \:moles = 2.31 \:moles$