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Title: need help balancing a tough equation
Post by: crazybouttennis on March 03, 2006, 08:51:01 PM

I've been spending a long time trying to balance this but it never works.   ???

The reactants are zinc and nitric acid.  The products are zinc nitrate, ammonium nitrate, and water.  I think I got the formulas right and the names of the reactants and products were given to me.

Zn (s) + HNO₃ (aq) yields Zn(NO₃)₂ (aq) + NH₄NO₃ (aq) + H₂O (l)

I tried looking for the equation by searching on google but couldn't find anything.  btw, I don't know what redox equations are (redox kept coming up on google).  I'm just trying to get the equation so that I can use it for a reaction stoichiometry problem.

Title: Re:need help balancing a tough equation
Post by: arnyk on March 03, 2006, 09:07:31 PM

Have you tried googling -> Chemical Equation Balancer (http://www.google.ca/search?q=chemical+equation+balancer&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official) :)

Title: Re:need help balancing a tough equation
Post by: crazybouttennis on March 03, 2006, 09:15:00 PM

thanks!  that worked really well!  :D