When sulfur trioxide gas reacts with water, a solution of sulfuric acid forms.Express your answer as a balanced chemical equatio
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Explanation:
According to the law of conservation of mass, mass can neither be created nor be destroyed. Thus the mass of products has to be equal to the mass of reactants. The number of atoms of each element has to be same on reactant and product side. Thus chemical equations are balanced.
The phases are represented as (s) for solid sate, (l) for liquid state, (g) for gaseous state and (aq) for aqueous state.
Thus the balanced chemical equation for :sulfur trioxide gas reacts with water, a solution of sulfuric acid forms is :
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Aluminum metal
Explanation:
In order to properly answer this or a similar question, we need to know some basic rules about galvanic cells and standard reduction potentials.
First of all, your strategy would be to find a trusted source or the table of standard reduction potentials. You would then need to find the half-equations for aluminum and gold reduction:
Since we have a galvanic cell, the overall reaction is spontaneous. A spontaneous reaction indicates that the overall cell potential should be positive.
Since one half-equation should be an oxidation reaction (oxidation is loss of electrons) and one should be a reduction reaction (reduction is gain of electrons), one of these should be reversed.
Thinking simply, if the overall cell potential would be obtained by adding the two potentials, in order to acquite a positive number in the sum of potentials, we may only reverse the half-equation of aluminum (this would change the sign of E to positive):
Notice that the overall cell potential upon summing is:
Meaning we obey the law of galvanic cells.
Since oxidation is loss of electrons, notice that the loss of electrons takes place in the half-equation of aluminum: solid aluminum electrode loses 3 electrons to become aluminum cation.