Question

If 15.6 grams of copper (ii) chloride react with 20.2 grams of sodium nitrate how many grams of sodium chloride can be formed? What are limiting and excess reactants? How many grams of the excess reactant remain when the reaction stops? If 12.6 grams of sodium chloride are actually produced, what is the percent yield of sodium chloride?
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Answer 1

Answer:

- 13.56 g of sodium chloride are theoretically yielded.

- Limiting reactant is copper (II) chloride and excess reactant is sodium nitrate.

- 0.50 g of sodium nitrate remain when the reaction stops.

- 92.9 % is the percent yield.

Explanation:

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In this case, according to the question, it is possible to set up the following chemical reaction:

$CuCl_2+2NaNO_3\rightarrow 2NaCl+Cu(NO_3)_2$

Thus, we can first identify the limiting reactant by computing the yielded mass of sodium chloride, NaCl, by each reactant via stoichiometry:

$m_{NaCl}^{by\ CuCl_2}=15.6gCuCl_2*\frac{1molCuCl_2}{134.45gCuCl_2} *\frac{2molNaCl}{1molCuCl_2} *\frac{58.44gNaCl}{1molNaCl} =13.56gNaCl\\\\m_{NaCl}^{by\ NaNO_3}=20.2gNaNO_3*\frac{1molNaNO_3}{84.99gNaNO_3} *\frac{2molNaCl}{2molNaNO_3} *\frac{58.44gNaCl}{1molNaCl} =13.89gNaCl$

Thus, we infer that copper (II) chloride is the limiting reactant as it yields the fewest grams of sodium chloride product. Moreover the formed grams of this product are 13.56 g. Then, we take 13.56 g of sodium chloride to compute the consumed mass sodium nitrate as it is in excess:

$m_{NaNO_3}^{by\ NaCl}=13.56gNaCl*\frac{1molNaCl}{58.44gNaCl}*\frac{2molNaNO_3}{2molNaCl} *\frac{84.99gNaNO_3}{1molNaNO_3}=19.72gNaNO_3$

Therefore, the leftover of sodium nitrate is:

$m_{NaNO_3}^{leftover}=20.2g-19.7g=0.5gNaNO_3$

Finally, the percent yield is computed via:

$Y=\frac{12.6g}{13.56g} *100\%\\\\Y=92.9\%$

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