Phosphorus has 4 in it and hydrogen has 3 in it. in order to balance it, we have to put 4 in front of phosphine so that the phosphorus on the product side has an equal amount as to the one on the reactant side.

the only one left to balance is hydrogen and so in order to balance it we put a 6 on h2 because the hydrogen in the product size becomes 12 (4 * 3).

therefore the hydrogen on the reactant side becomes 12 as well (6 * 2)

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An unknown amount of acid can often be determined by adding an excess of base and then back-titrating the excess. A 0.3471−g sam

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Explanation:

The given data is as follows.

Mass of mixture = 0.3471 g

As the mixture contains oxalic acid and benzoic acid. So, oxalic acid will have two protons and benzoic acid has one proton.

This means oxalic acid will react with 2 moles of NaOH and benzoic acid will react with 1 mole of NaOH.

Hence, moles of NaOH in 97 ml = $\frac{0.1090 \times 97}{1000}$

= $10.573 \times 10^{-3} mol$

Moles of HCl in 21.00 ml = $\frac{0.2060 \times 21}{1000}$

= $4.326 \times 10^{-3}$ mol

Therefore, total moles of NaOH that reacted are as follows.

$10.573 \times 10^{-3} mol$ - $4.326 \times 10^{-3} mol$

= $6.247 \times 10^{-3}$ mol

So, total 3 mole of NaOH will react with 1 mole of mixture. Therefore, number of moles of NaOH reacted with benzoic acid is as follows.

$\frac{6.247 \times 10^{-3}}{3}$

= $2.082 \times 10^{-3}$ mol

Since, molar mass of NaOH is 40 g/mol. Therefore, calculate the mass of NaOH as follows.

$2.082 \times 10^{-3} mol \times 40 g/mol$

= $83.293 \times 10^{-3}$ g

= 0.0832 g

Whereas molar mass of benzoic acid is 122 g/mol.

Therefore, 40 g NaOH = 122 g benzoic acid

So, 0.0832 g NaOH = $\frac{122 g}{40 g} \times 0.0832 g$

= 0.253 g

Hence, calculate the % mass of benzoic acid as follows.

$\frac{0.253 g}{0.3471 g} \times 100$

= 73.10%

Thus, we can conclude that mass % of benzoic acid is 73.10%.

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