What does Iron(iii) Chloride + Barium yield?

1 Answer
Apr 18, 2018

Should produce barium chloride and iron.

Reaction:

#3Ba+2FeCl_3->3BaCl_2+2Fe#

Explanation:

To determine if a metal with react with another metal compound, we must look if the pure metal, which is barium in this case, is higher on the reactivity series than iron, which is the metal compound, in iron(III) chloride.

From here,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactivity_series

Barium is higher than iron on the reactivity series, and so, barium will react with iron(III) chloride.

Now, we just need to exchange partners, and this is also a redox reaction. #Ba(0)# is oxidized into #Ba(+II)# in barium chloride, while #Fe(+III)# is reduced to #Fe(0)# from iron(III) chloride.

The equation for this is:

#Ba+2FeCl_3->3BaCl_2+2Fe#

The balanced equation is:

#3Ba+2FeCl_3->3BaCl_2+2Fe#