How would #"barium nitride"# react with water?

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anor277
Sep 17, 2017

Well we got barium nitride.....#Ba_3N_2#

Explanation:

....and this would be a hard salt to isolate; its reaction with water would proceed as follows......

#Ba_3N_2(s) + 6H_2O(l) rarr 3Ba(OH)_2(aq) + 2NH_3(aq) #

Note that the nitride anion binds as #N^(3-)#, and we could represent its net ionic equation as.....

#N^(3-) + 3H_2O(l) rarr NH_3(aq) + 3HO^-#

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