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Offline firzzy87

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making and balancing chemical equation
« on: July 30, 2006, 11:05:46 PM »
Can somebody help me ...
1) How to write the equation for the preparation of gaseous potassium from the reaction of liquid sodium and liquid potassium ???

Is it looks like this ??

Na + KCl -----------> K(g)-  ???

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Re: making and balancing chemical equation
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2006, 11:24:43 PM »
Liquid sodium with liquid potassium?  Actually, the gaseous potassium is prepared by reacting liquid sodium metal with molten potassium chloride.  Anyway, the equation would just be this:

Na (l) + KCl (l) ----> K(g) + NaCl (l)

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