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3 years ago

Explain the difference between actual and theoretical yield

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The major difference between the 2, is that actual yield is the amount or quantity of something, some substance and or product that you actually obtain upon working on the experiment, and or running a reaction. The theoretical yield, is the supposed amount and or quantity of product that you should obtain assuming that the reaction occurred perfectly and all of the reactants have been converted to products.
Usually the actual yield would be less than that of the theoretical yield, indicating that a chemical reaction and or process will never produce the complete or full amount of substance of what you supposed.

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How many moles of argon would you have if you have 25 L of argon?

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Strontium-90 is a radioisotope that will decrease in mass by one-half every 29 years. How many years will it take for a 10.0-gra

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Answer: It will take 29 years for a 10.0-gram sample of strontium-90 to decay to 5.00 grams

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Half life is the amount of time taken by a radioactive material to decay to half of its original value.

Half life is represented by $t_{\frac{1}{2}$

$t_{\frac{1}{2}=\frac{0.693}{\lambda}$

$\lambda$ = rate constant

Given : Strontium-90 decreases in mass by one-half every 29 years , that is half life of Strontium-90 is 29 years.

As half life is independent of initial concentration, it will take 29 years for a 10.0-gram sample of strontium-90 to decay to 5.00 grams as the amount gets half.

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1 year ago

There are two steps in the usual industrial preparation of acrylic acid, the immediate precursor of several useful plastics. In

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The question is incomplete, here is the complete question:

There are two steps in the usual industrial preparation of acrylic acid, the immediate precursor of several useful plastics. In the first step, calcium carbide and water react to form acetylene and calcium hydroxide:

$CaC_2(s)+2H_2O(g)\rightarrow C_2H_2(g)+Ca(OH)_2(s)$

In the second step, acetylene, carbon dioxide and water react to form acrylic acid:

$6C_2H_2(g)+3CO_2(g)+4H_2O(g)\rightarrow 5CH_2CHCO_2H(g)$

Write the net chemical equation for the production of acrylic acid from calcium carbide, water and carbon dioxide. Be sure your equation is balanced.

Answer: The net chemical equation is written below.

Explanation:

The intermediate balanced chemical reaction are:

(1) $CaC_2(s)+2H_2O(g)\rightarrow C_2H_2(g)+Ca(OH)_2(s)$ ( × 6 )

(2) $6C_2H_2(g)+3CO_2(g)+4H_2O(g)\rightarrow 5CH_2CHCO_2H(g)$

To omit acetylene from the net chemical reaction, we multiply Equation (1) by 6.

Equation 1: $6CaC_2(s)+12H_2O(g)\rightarrow 6C_2H_2(g)+6Ca(OH)_2(s)$

Equation 2: $6C_2H_2(g)+3CO_2(g)+4H_2O(g)\rightarrow 5CH_2CHCO_2H(g)$

Net chemical equation: $6CaC_2(s)+3CO_2(g)+16H_2O(g)\rightarrow 5CH_2CHCO_2H(g)+6Ca(OH)_2(s)$

Hence, the net chemical equation is written above.

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