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What is the Chemical equation of potassium dichromate when HCl is added to the solution?

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago
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    In K2Cr2O7 there are 2 Cr atoms that are +6 each and in CrCl3 Cr is +3 and so you'll have 2 Cr atoms going from +6 to +3 which is a total of 6e- (Cr2O7^2- + 6e →2Cr3+ ); important to balance the Cr atoms here to calculate the number of e-).

    In HCl the Cl atom is -1 and in Cl2 the 2 Cl atoms are in the zero oxidation state and so you'll have 2 Cl atoms going from -1 to 0 which is a total of 2e- (2Cl- → Cl2 + 2e- ); also important to balance the Cl atoms here to calculate the number of e-)

    From here you should recognize that to balance the electrons you'll need to balance each half reaction to 6e- to make them equal so you'll have to triple the second half reaction.

    After that you'll need to (1) balance the oxygens using H2O

    and (2) balance the hydrogens using H+. ( Cr2O7^2- + 14H+ + 6e →2Cr3+ + 7H2O )

    The last balanced equation will be

    K2Cr2O7 + 14 HCl → 2 KCl + 2 CrCl3 + 7 H2O + 3 Cl2

    Hope this helps!

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