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Balancing Issues?
« on: July 29, 2016, 11:50:40 AM »
Problem has been attached again. I don't know how to balance this, can someone give help me out here?

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Re: Balancing Issues?
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2016, 12:38:45 PM »
Problem has been attached again. I don't know how to balance this, can someone give help me out here?

What type of reaction is this?

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Re: Balancing Issues?
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2016, 12:56:41 PM »
Write down ClO2 two times. The first molecule is reduced, the second one - oxidized.
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Re: Balancing Issues?
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2016, 02:34:01 PM »
I'm sorry but I don't understand.

Can you elaborate a bit further?

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Re: Balancing Issues?
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2016, 02:46:34 PM »
This is a disproportionation reaction (redox reaction in which specie - in this case ClO2 - is simultaneously reduced and oxidised to form two different products). You may solve problem algebraically, balancing electrons from the right side to the left one or writing ClO2 twice on the left side with electron balancing typically.
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Re: Balancing Issues?
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2016, 11:52:08 AM »
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