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Solid copper is added to nitric acid, and copper(II) nitrate, nitrogen dioxide, and water are produced.

What's the balanced equation for this?

The skeleton equation would be like;;

Cu + HNO3 yields to CU(NO3)3 + NO2 +H2O

The numbers are subscript, of course.

2007-12-11 14:47:30 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Chemistry

4 answers

Cu + 4 HNO3 ---> Cu(NO3)2 + 2 NO2 + 2 H2O

2007-12-11 14:56:42 · answer #1 · answered by Flying Dragon 7 · 0 0

This reaction actually produces NO, which immediately reacts with O2 in the air to give NO2

3 Cu + 8 HNO3 ---> 3 Cu(NO3)2 + 2 NO + 4 H2O

I did not balance it by sight, I did so using half-reactions. These are the unbalanced half-reactions, written in net ionic form.

Cu ---> Cu2+

NO3- ---> NO

These are the balanced half-reactions

Cu ---> Cu + 2e-

3e- + 4H+ + NO3- ---> NO + 2H2O

In net ionic form, the reaction is:

3 Cu + 8 H+ + 2NO3- ---> 3 Cu2+ + 2 NO + 4 H2O

2007-12-11 14:57:51 · answer #2 · answered by ChemTeam 7 · 0 0

copper II nitrate is Cu(NO3)2

Cu + 4 HNO3 = Cu(NO3)2 + 2 NO2 + 2 H2O

2007-12-11 15:01:27 · answer #3 · answered by lynx 3 · 0 0

At a possibility: TiO2 + 2C + 2Cl2 --> TiCl4 + 2CO C is a sturdy, Cl2 a gas (i think of) and CO is definately a gas. No clue approximately the different 2. Why no longer seem it up? you've gotten documents tables or some thing.

2016-12-10 20:22:56 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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