I need help with my chem homework and im so lost !!
Na2B4O7 + H2SO4 + 5H2O --> 4H3BO3 + Na2SO4
also what is the limiting reactant? and what is the actual mass of H3BO3 produced is the percent yield is 85%?
HELP ME :(
I need help with my chem homework and im so lost !!
Na2B4O7 + H2SO4 + 5H2O --> 4H3BO3 + Na2SO4
also what is the limiting reactant? and what is the actual mass of H3BO3 produced is the percent yield is 85%?
HELP ME :(
You do have a printed periodic table, right? You can get the information at www.chemicalelements.com/index.html but you really need your own printed copy to carry with you. It will be a primary reference for everything you do.
There is a diagonal line, B-C, Si-P, Ge-As, Sb-Te, and Po-At. Elements to the left of the line are metals, meaning they lose an electron easily, elements to the right of the line are non-metals, and elements on the line are semiconductors.
Na2B4O7
Na - 22.989768 times 2 - 45.979536
B4 - 10.811 times 4 - 43.244
O7 - 15.9994 times 7 - 111.9958
molecular weight = 201.219 (three significant figures) grams per mole
10 grams = 0.049697 mole
You have to do this for each reactant and each product and then figure ratios 1:1:5 --> 4:1 to find the limiting reactant and moles of product. Chemistry involves a lot of arithmetic and you have to be perfectly prepared to do the work at all.
Get a ruler in your hands. Measure things until you start to understand how a ruler works. Measure some stuff and figure out where the center is. Say you measure a book and it's 7/8" thick. You look at your ruler and see that every eighth is divided into two sixteenths, so obviously half of 7/8" is going to be 7/16". If you write that out you have 1/2 x 7/8 = 7/16. And you notice that 1/2 is divided into 2/4 and then into 4/8 and so on, so you can convert anything to anything by multiplying all the numbers on top and then all the numbers on bottom.
Other rulers are divided into 10 and 100 parts. But an inch is still an inch, so anything on one ruler can be translated to the other ruler. A half inch on one ruler is 5/10 or 50/100 on the other. An eighth inch is just 12.5 marks when you have 100 marks per inch. A metric ruler divides an inch into 25.4 parts, so a half inch would be 12.7 of those parts. Pretty simple, isn't it? Practice this a bit and people will think you went to wizard school.