Answer: Christine Herman & L.G Wade Jr., "2010". Organic Chemistry: Reaction of Alkane, 7e, Pearson Education, Radford University, Radford, VA.
Explanation:
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Place of publication.
Note that the title of book should be italicized with capitalization of first word.
Answer: C)Anion, it would gain 2 electrons to satisfy the octet rule.
Explanation:
Electronic configuration represents the total number of electrons that a neutral element contains. We add all the superscripts to know the number of electrons in an atom.
The electrons are filled according to Afbau's rule in order of increasing energies and thus the electronic configuration of oxygen with 8 electrons is

The cation is formed by loss of electrons and anions are formed by gain of electrons.
In order to complete its octet and get stable, it gains 2 electrons and thus would form an anion.

Answer:
Complete ionic:
.
Net ionic:
.
Explanation:
Start by identifying species that exist as ions. In general, such species include:
- Soluble salts.
- Strong acids and strong bases.
All four species in this particular question are salts. However, only three of them are generally soluble in water:
,
, and
. These three salts will exist as ions:
- Each
formula unit will exist as one
ion and one
ion. - Each
formula unit will exist as one
ion and two
ions (note the subscript in the formula
.) - Each
formula unit will exist as one
and two
ions.
On the other hand,
is generally insoluble in water. This salt will not form ions.
Rewrite the original chemical equation to get the corresponding ionic equation. In this question, rewrite
,
, and
(three soluble salts) as the corresponding ions.
Pay attention to the coefficient of each species. For example, indeed each
formula unit will exist as only one
ion and one
ion. However, because the coefficient of
in the original equation is two,
alone should correspond to two
ions and two
ions.
Do not rewrite the salt
because it is insoluble.
.
Eliminate ions that are present on both sides of this ionic equation. In this question, such ions include one unit of
and two units of
. Doing so will give:
.
Simplify the coefficients:
.
Answer: The value of the equilibrium constant Kc for this reaction is 3.72
Explanation:
Equilibrium concentration of
= 
Equilibrium concentration of
= 
Equilibrium concentration of
= 
Equilibrium concentration of
= 
Equilibrium constant is defined as the ratio of concentration of products to the concentration of reactants each raised to the power their stoichiometric ratios. It is expressed as
For the given chemical reaction:
The expression for
is written as:
Thus the value of the equilibrium constant Kc for this reaction is 3.72