Can anyone PLEASE balance this chemical equation for me:
Fe2O3+CO ---> FE+CO2
(all numbers being subscripts)
2007-03-21 21:18:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Fe2O3 + 3CO = 2Fe + 3CO2
2007-03-21 21:23:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fe2O3+CO ---> FE+CO2
to balance a chemical equation the first step involved is
total number of reactants must be equal to the total number of products.
this is the important step.
in this equation
the reactants are the products are
Fe 2 Fe 2
C 1 C 1
O 4 O 2
in order to make them equal on both sides,
Fe 2 so put 2 on the product side of Fe
then total number oxygen atom is 4
but on the right hand side it is 2
only so in order to balance that
put 3 before CO2,
now the carbon becomes 3,
so to balance the carbon on the reactant side
put 3 before CO.
finally on the reactant side
the number of Fe is 2
the number of C is 3
the number of O is 6
on the product side,
the number of FE is 2
the number of C is 3
the number of O is 6
so that the equation has to written as
Fe2O3+ 3CO ---> 2FE+3CO2
so both sides are valued equal now
2007-03-22 04:53:56 · answer #2 · answered by jeya s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fe2O3 + 3CO -> 2 Fe + 3CO2
2007-03-22 04:25:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fe2O3+ 3CO---> 2Fe +3CO2
2007-03-22 04:24:05 · answer #4 · answered by maussy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋