Question

What is the molecular, ionic and net ionic equations for solid sodium bicarbonate plus nitric acid?

Answer 1

Here's what I get.

Explanation:

Molecular equation

`"NaHCO"_3 + "HNO"_3 → "NaNO"_3 + "CO"_2 + "H"_2"O"`

Ionic equation

`"Na"^"+" + "HCO"_3^"-" + "H"^"+" + "NO"_3^"-" → "Na"^"+" + "NO"_3^"-" + "CO"_2 + "H"_2"O"`

Net ionic equation

Here, we cancel the ions that appear on each side of the equation.

`color(red)(cancel(color(black)("Na"^"+"))) + "HCO"_3^"-" + "H"^"+" + color(red)(cancel(color(black)("NO"_3^"-"))) → color(red)(cancel(color(black)("Na"^"+"))) + color(red)(cancel(color(black)("NO"_3^"-"))) + "CO"_2 + "H"_2"O"`

This gives the net ionic equation

`"HCO"_3^"-" + "H"^"+" → "CO"_2 + "H"_2"O"`