Question

During Project 3: Week 1 the goal was to synthesize an artificial kidney stone. If you were producing barium phosphate tribasic, what would be the correct stoichiometric coefficients for the reaction depicted below? Ba(NO3)2 (aq) + Na3PO4 (aq) → Ba3(PO4)2 (s) + NaNO3 (aq)

Answer 1

Answer: the correct stoichiometric coefficients will be

3:2= 1:6

Explanation:

3Ba(NO3)2 (aq) + 2Na3PO4 (aq) → Ba3(PO4)2 (s) + 6NaNO3 (aq)

From the equation of reaction,

3 moles of Ba(NO3)2 (aq) will require 2 moles of Na3PO4 , to give 1 mole of Ba3(PO4)2 (s) and 6moles of NaNO3 (aq)