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3 years ago

Why are there 2 chloride ions for every 1 calcium in calcium chloride

Chemistry

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tensa zangetsu [6.8K]3 years ago

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Explanation:

Calcium is divalent. This means that it donates two electrons during ionic bond formation. Since chlorine atom can only accept one electron during ionic bond formation, two chlorine atoms must accept the two electrons donated by calcium.

For this purpose, each time CaCl2 is formed, there must be two chlorine atoms for each calcium atom.

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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

harkovskaia [24]

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:

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

Hence, hydrogen would produce 2.31 moles of ammonia.

Therefore, hydrogen is the limiting reactant because 7.5 moles of hydrogen would be needed to consume the available nitrogen (option 1).

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3 years ago

How can I tell how many electrons in each energy level? When my question states "third sublevel" does this mean sublevel P?

nikitadnepr [17]

Sorry for the delay! My internet is a bit bad.
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s = 1, p =3, d = 5, f = 7
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kobusy [5.1K]

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