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While boiling potatoes for dinner in salted water, the pot boils over and you notice that the flame on your gas burner turns to

bright yellow-orange. How would you explain the appearance of a color in the previously blue flame?

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wel3 years ago

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Answer:

This observation can be explained under the following reasons:

High sodium content
Lowered heat temperature
Organic burn

Explanation:

High sodium content from the potato fluid causes the flame to turn yellow, as indicative of the presence of sodium (flame test).

The colour change could also be attributed to the drastic lowering of the burner heat. Finally, pure organics like wood and fats burn red, a would be the case with fluids from the boiled potatoes.

I hope this explanation was helpful.

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Calcium Carbonate reacts with dilute hydrochloric acid. The equation for the reaction is shown. CaCo3 + 2Hcl = Cacl2 + H2O + Co2

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Answer:

Approximately $0.224\;\rm L$ , assuming that this reaction took place under standard temperature and pressure, and that $\rm CO_2$ behaves like an ideal gas. Also assume that the reaction went to completion.

Explanation:

The first step is to find out: which species is the limiting reactant?

Assume that $\rm CaCO_3$ is the limiting reactant. How many moles of $\rm CO_2$ would be produced?

Look up the relative atomic mass of $\rm Ca$ , $\rm C$ , and $\rm O$ on a modern periodic table:

$\rm Ca$ : $40.078$ .
$\rm C$ : $12.011$ .
$\rm O$ : $15.999$ .

Calculate the formula mass of $\rm CaCO_3$ :

$\begin{aligned} & M(\rm CaCO_3) \\ &= 40.078 + 12.011 + 3 \times 15.999 \\&= 100.086\; \rm g \cdot mol^{-1}\end{aligned}$ .

Calculate the number of moles of formula units in $1\; \rm g$ of $\rm CaCO_3$ using its formula mass:

$\begin{aligned}& n(\mathrm{CaCO_3})\\&= \frac{m(\mathrm{CaCO_3})}{M(\mathrm{CaCO_3})} \\ &= \frac{1\; \rm g}{100.086\; \rm g \cdot mol^{-1}} \approx 1.00\times 10^{-2}\; \rm mol\end{aligned}$ .

In the balanced chemical equation, the ratio between the coefficient of $\rm CaCO_3$ and that of $\rm CO_2$ is $\displaystyle \frac{n(\mathrm{CO_2})}{n(\mathrm{CaCO_3})} = 1$ .

In other words, for each mole of $\rm CaCO_3$ formula units consumed, one mole of $\rm CO_2$ would be produced.

If $\rm CaCO_3$ is indeed the limiting reactant, all that approximately $1.00\times 10^{-2}\; \rm mol$ of $\rm CaCO_3\!$ formula would be consumed. That would produce approximately $1.00\times 10^{-2}\; \rm mol\!$ of $\rm CO_2$ .

On the other hand, assume that $\rm HCl$ is the limiting reactant.

Convert the volume of $\rm HCl$ to $\rm dm^{3}$ (so as to match the unit of concentration.)

$\begin{aligned}&V(\mathrm{HCl})\\ &= 50\; \rm cm^{3} \\ &= 50\; \rm cm^{3} \times \frac{1\; \rm dm^{3}}{10^{3}\; \rm cm^{3}} \\ &= 5.00\times 10^{-2}\; \rm dm^{3} \end{aligned}$ .

Calculate the number of moles of $\rm HCl$ molecules in that $5.00\times 10^{-2}\; \rm dm^{3}$ of this $\rm 0.05\; \rm mol \cdot dm^{-3}$

$\begin{aligned}& n(\mathrm{HCl}) \\ &= c(\mathrm{HCl}) \cdot V(\mathrm{HCl}) \\ &= 0.05\; \rm mol \cdot dm^{-3}\\ &\quad\quad \times 5.00\times 10^{-2}\;\rm dm^{3} \\ &= 2.50 \times 10^{-3}\; \rm mol\end{aligned}$ .

Notice that in the balanced chemical reaction, the ratio between the coefficient of $\rm HCl$ and that of $\rm CO_2$ is $\displaystyle \frac{n(\mathrm{CO_2})}{n(\mathrm{HCl})} = \frac{1}{2}$ .

In other words, each mole of $\rm HCl$ molecules consumed would produce only $0.5\;\rm mol$ of $\rm CO_2$ molecules.

Therefore, if $\rm HCl$ is the limiting reactant, that $2.50 \times 10^{-3}\; \rm mol$ of $\rm HCl\!$ molecules would produce only one-half as many (that is, $1.25\times 10^{-3}\; \rm mol$ ) of $\rm CO_2$ molecules.

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In reality, no more than $\rm 1.00\times 10^{-3}\; \rm mol$ of $\rm CO_2$ molecules would be produced. The reason is that all $\rm CaCO_3$ would have been consumed before $\rm HCl$ was.

After finding the limiting reactant, approximate the volume of the $\rm CO_2\!$ produced.

Assume that this reaction took place under standard temperature and pressure (STP.) Under STP, the volume of one mole of ideal gas molecules would be approximately $22.4\; \rm L$ .

If $\rm CO_2$ behaves like an ideal gas, the volume of that $\rm 1.00\times 10^{-3}\; \rm mol$ of $\rm CO_2\!$ molecules would be approximately $\rm 1.00\times 10^{-3}\; \rm mol \times 22.4\; \rm L = 0.224\; \rm L$ .

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Percent abundance of P-31 = 21.9%

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Average atomic mass = (abundance of 1st isotope × its atomic mass) +(abundance of 2nd isotope × its atomic mass) + (abundance of 3rd isotope × its atomic mass / 100

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