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Help with balancing equations?

We did this chemical equation in class and even our teacher couldn't solve it. So, it made me curious and I want to know, can you balance this equation?

(2)- subscripts -- I couldn't figure out how to actually write a subscript ;)

2-coefficient

Li + H(2)O --> H(2) + LiOH

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I guess you mean : Li + H2O = LiOH + H2

    If so, we add a H2O first because we're missing a H anyway on the left part :

    Li + 2(H2O) = LiOH + H2

    1Li, 4H, 2O = 1Li, 3H, 1O

    Now, by adding a LiOH, we have the O and H balanced at once and we just have to add a Li on the other side to get the whole thing good :

    2(Li) + 2(H2O) = 2(LiOH) + H2

    2Li, 4H, 2O = 2Li, 4H, 2O

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    At a guess: TiO2 + 2C + 2Cl2 --> TiCl4 + 2CO C is a solid, Cl2 a gas (I think) and CO is definately a gas. No clue about the other two. Why not look it up? You must have data tables or something.

  • 1 decade ago

    2 Li + 2 H(2)O > H(2) + 2 LiOH

    Edit: lol I was thinking whoop I got it, and then realised like 20 people got it while I was thinking :p

    Source(s): My own head :)
  • 1 decade ago

    lithium hydroxide would not exist as the molecule in water but as lithium ion and hydroxide ion

    but it can be balanced as is....

    2Li + 2H2O → H2 + 2LiOH

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  • 1 decade ago

    Li(2) + (2) H2O yields H2 + (2)LiOH

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    2Li + 2H(2)0--> H(2) +2LiOH

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You can't be serious.

    This is trivial.

    2Li + 2H2O → 2LiOH + H2

  • ;)
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    2LI + 2H(2)O --> H(2) + 2LiOH

    balanced :)

  • 1 decade ago

    2Li + 2H(2)O --> H(2) + 2LiOH

  • 1 decade ago

    2Li + 2H(2)O --> H(2) + 2LiOH

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