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Well, just hints but:
1) Write the chemical equation. Find the number of moles of each reactant in the reaction using n = m/MM
2) If one is in excess, that means not all of the moles of this excess chemical is used up. (i.e. if AlCl3 is in excess, then only the number of moles of NaOH reacts to form the precipitate).
3) Using the reaction equation, use the molar ratios to equate how many moles of the product is formed. Use m = n*MM to find the mass of the precipitate.
Hope it helps.
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I tried that but for some reason i got something like 0.01Well, just hints but:
1) Write the chemical equation. Find the number of moles of each reactant in the reaction using n = m/MM
2) If one is in excess, that means not all of the moles of this excess chemical is used up. (i.e. if AlCl3 is in excess, then only the number of moles of NaOH reacts to form the precipitate).
3) Using the reaction equation, use the molar ratios to equate how many moles of the product is formed. Use m = n*MM to find the mass of the precipitate.
Hope it helps.
Ok I will try and give a sort of method:
1. Calculate the number of moles for the reactants
2. Find the limiting reagent
To do this I will use this example:
The mole ration between the reactants in 1:3
For n moles of AlCl3 the moles of NaOH required is:
number of actual moles of AlCl3/stoichiometric moles of AlCl3( which is 1) * stoichiometric moles of NaOH (which is 3)
3. Once you have found the limiting reagent (NaOH) work out the mole ratio between it and the solid. This is 3:1. Therefore, divide the actual moles of NaOH by 3 to get the actual moles of Al(OH)3.
4. Calculate the mass using n=m/mm
Would the following approach help? Note that percentages have been modified slightly:
- Find the empirical formula of a compound that has 40.87% of Carbon (C), 21.98% of Chlorine (Cl), 3.72% of Hydrogen (H), 8.67% of Nitrogen (N), 24.77% of Oxygen (O).
- Find molar mass of each component: C=12.0107, Cl=35.453, H=1.00794, N=14.0067, O=15.9994
- Convert to moles: C=3.4027991707394, Cl=0.61997574253237, H=3.6906958747544, N=0.61898948360428, O=1.5481830568646
- Find smallest mole value: 0.61898948360428
- Divide all components by the smallest value: C=5.4973456914413, Cl=1.0015933371313, H=5.9624532766924, N=1, O=2.5011459772302
- Divide by the fractional components (0.49734569144128, 0.98854917072583) of each mole value: C=11.181405858895, Cl=2.0372052689838, H=12.127418165677, N=2.0339644778575, O=5.0872420716224
- Round to closest whole numbers: C=11, Cl=2, H=12, N=2, O=5
- Combine to get the empirical formula: C11Cl2H12N2O5
- Determine the molecular formula of the molecule (which we now have).
- Use the periodic table to determine the atomic mass of each element in the molecule.
- Multiply each element's atomic mass by the number of atoms of that element in the molecule. This number is represented by the subscript next to the element symbol in the molecular formula.
- Add these values together for each different atom in the molecule.
# | Atom | Molar Mass | Subtotal Mass |
11 | C | 12.01 | 132.12 |
2 | Cl | 35.45 | 70.91 |
12 | H | 1.01 | 12.09 |
2 | N | 14.01 | 28.01 |
5 | O | 16.00 | 80.00 |
The total will be the molecular mass of the compound, i.e. 323.13.
You can also search for the molar mass of each element online.
Getting the number of moles in terms of each element involves treating the percentages as grams (out of 100 g) then dividing each of them by their respective molar mass, for instance:
Ahh i see now thank youYou can also search for the molar mass of each element online.
Getting the number of moles in terms of each element involves treating the percentages as grams (out of 100 g) then dividing each of them by their respective molar mass, for instance:
as seen above for carbon.