An example of an atom that has no charge is one that has a. 2 protons, 2 electrons, and 1 neutron.
To be neutral an atom must have the <em>same number</em> of protons (+) and electrons (-).
Only then will the <em>charges cancel</em> and give a neutral atom.
The first student treats the starting material which is the 3-oxobutanoic acid with sodium methoxide which is followed by methyl iodide and form compound A. Analysis 1HNMR it shows that this is not the desired material.
Compound A has same 2-methyl-3- oxobutanoate acid as molecular formula.
Preparation
• Grate a small red cabbage. If you do not want to grate the entire cabbage, grating half of a cabbage should be enough. Put the fine, pulpy grated cabbage into a large bowl or pot.
• Boil a pot of water. Use caution when handling the boiling water. Pour the boiling water into the bowl with the cabbage pulp until the water just covers the cabbage.
• Leave the cabbage mixture steeping, stirring occasionally, until the liquid is room temperature. This should take at least half an hour. The liquid will become red or purplish-red in color.
• Place a strainer over another large bowl or pot and pour the cabbage mixture through the strainer to remove the cabbage pulp. Press down on the pulp in the strainer, such as by using a large spoon, to squeeze more liquid out of the pulp.
• In the bowl, you should now have only liquid that will either be purple or blue in color. This will be your indicator solution, which you will use to test the pH of different liquids.
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In order to balance both of the reactions you need to make sure that both sides of the reaction have the same number of atoms for each atom in order to follow conservation of mass.
KCl+F₂→KF+Cl₂
Notice how in the above reaction there are two chlorine atoms on the products side (right side) and only one atom of chlorine on the reactants side (left side). you want both the reactants and products side to have the same amount chlorine and to do this multiply KCl by 2. Fluorine however, has 2 atoms on the reactant side and 1 atom on the product side. to fix this multiply KF by 2. <span>Therefore the balanced reaction is: 2KCl+F₂→2KF+Cl₂
</span>notice how both sides of the reaction have equal numbers of each atom.
Mg+HCl→MgCl₂+H₂
the above reaction has 2 atoms of H on the products side and only 1 atom of H on the reactants side. That means you have to multiply HCl by 2. Now you have the equation Mg+2HCl→MgCl₂+H₂. As you can see now we have equal numbers of all the atoms on both sides which means that that is the balanced equation.
I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any further questions or need anything to be clarified.
