How many mols of NaCl are produced if you start with 5.0 mols of Chlorine?
This reaction ?
2Na+Cl2 >>2NaCl
If so,then five moles of Cl2 gives 10 moles of sodium chloride.
2Na + Cl2 > 2NaCl
then the question from above - would it still be 10? If so, can you just explain to me how you got there.
well, the balanced equation says for each one mole of Cl2, one gets twice that number of moles for NaCl.
To determine how many moles of NaCl are produced, we need to know the balanced chemical equation for the reaction between chlorine (Cl2) and sodium (Na). Let's assume the equation is as follows:
2 Na + Cl2 → 2 NaCl
From the balanced equation, we can see that for every 1 mol of Cl2, we produce 2 mols of NaCl. Therefore, to find out how many moles of NaCl are produced when starting with 5.0 mols of Cl2, we can use the ratio:
5.0 mol Cl2 × (2 mol NaCl / 1 mol Cl2) = 10.0 mol NaCl
By multiplying 5.0 mol Cl2 by the ratio (2 mol NaCl / 1 mol Cl2), we find that 10.0 moles of NaCl are produced.