The amount of calcium chloride required to produce 1.5 g of KCl is 1.12 g
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Stoichiometry in chemistry mainly focuses on numerical data, including volume, mass, counts, and their relationships among molecules and elements.
A reaction coefficient is a number in the chemical equation indicating the quantities of substances involved in a reaction. It helps balance the reactants and products.
The reaction can involve different states of matter, which include
gas (g), liquid (l), solid (s), and aqueous (aq).The reaction that occurs is:
CaCl₂ (aq) + K₂CO₃ (aq) → 2 KCl (aq) + CaCO₃ (aq)
From this equation, the mole ratios of reactants and products are evident
mol CaCl₂: moles of KCl = 1: 2
The molecular weight of KCl is 74.6 and for CaCl2 it’s 111.
Using these values:
moles of KCl = mass: relative molecular mass
moles of KCl = 1.5 grams: 74.6
moles of KCl = 0.020107
Thus
moles of CaCl₂ = 0.0100535, which corresponds to the mass: mass CaCl₂ = moles x relative molecular mass
mass CaCl₂ = 0.0100535 x 111
gives us mass CaCl₂ = 1.12 grams
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Keywords: CaCl2, KCl, mole, mass, relative molecular mass