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chemistry help - balancing chemical equations?
Directions: Write correct chemical formulas for the reaction and products for the following word equations. Balance the chemical equations.
1) Iron + sulfur --> Iron(II) sulfide
Can someone help explain how to do this because i have 20 of these to do. Thank you =)
6 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Iron (II) has a +2 charge while S is -2 so Iron (II) sulfide would be FeS.
Fe + S --> FeS
There shouldn't be any balancing on this one, but I'm sure the others you have will. Just remember you have to have the same amount of each element on both sides.
- StevenLv 71 decade ago
Iron is Fe, Sulfur is S, Iron (II) Sulfide is FeS
You might think the reaction is simple - 1 atom of each:
Fe + S -> FeS
However, pure Sulfur likes to combine together into molecules - S8, while Iron in pure form will happily exist as individual atoms. So you'd actually need to do a larger batch:
8Fe + S8 -> 8FeS
Your other problems are likely to be similar.
- Anonymous5 years ago
In the water part, the coefficient 2 at the front of H(2)O to make 2H(2)O means that everything after it has 2 times that amount so 2H(2)O = 2 xH2 and 2xO = 4Hs and 2Os Change the equations to the following: 1) This is already balanced 2) 2C + 2Br(2) --> 2CBr(4) 3) 2Fe + O(2) --> 2FeO 4) This is already balanced 5) 2Si + O(2) --> SiO(2)
- RexLv 51 decade ago
Fe + S -------- FeS
It is balanced as is since there is 1 Fe and 1 S on each side.
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