Please, could you help me with this chemistry question?.
when heated, potassium chlorate decomposes into potassium chloride and oxygen.
#2KClO_3 to 2KCl+O_3#
what will be the theoretical yield of potassium chloride if 10g of potassium chlorate was used?
when heated, potassium chlorate decomposes into potassium chloride and oxygen.
what will be the theoretical yield of potassium chloride if 10g of potassium chlorate was used?
1 Answer
Explanation:
Well, we first need to write down the balanced equation for this:
As you can see here, the mole ratio between potassium chlorate
Since we have used
We know that potassium chlorate has a molar mass of
So, we have used
So, we are also going to produce
So, the amount of potassium chloride that we are going to produce in grams will be
Rounding off to the nearest whole number since the amount of reactants given is a whole number, that equates to