A common dry-cell battery is the zinc-carbon battery, which uses a cell that is sometimes called the Leclanché cell. The cell is made up of an outer zinc container, which acts as the anode.
It is actually something standardized more so than theoretical, however in terms of atoms in general the electrons are based on the amount of electronic shells that an atom has and the amount of electrons that atom can accommodate. In the case of sodium, it has three shells with 2 electrons on the first shell which is the maximum, 8 on the second shell which is also the max and 1 on their final shell
So simply put an ATOM of Sodium (Na) has 23 electrons because it has 23 protons which is a fact
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Cao + H2O ---->Ca(OH)2
Calculate the number of each reactant and the moles of the product
that is
moles = mass/molar mass
The moles of CaO= 56.08g/ 56.08g/mol(molar mass of Cao)= 1mole
the moles of water= 36.04 g/18 g/mol= 2.002moles
The moles of Ca (OH)2=74.10g/74.093g/mol= 1mole
The mass of differences of reactant and product can be therefore
explained as
1 mole of Cao reacted completely with 1 mole H2O to produce 1 mole of Ca(OH)2. The mass of water was in excess while that of CaO was limited
