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Topic: Balancing Iron III Hydroxide yields Iron III Oxide plus Water?  (Read 16609 times)

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Offline Skyler

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Balancing Iron III Hydroxide yields Iron III Oxide plus Water?
« on: September 24, 2008, 10:30:06 PM »
I'm in need of some help I can't figure out how to balance the Oxygen molecules in the compound..eek. ??? Thanks for your help.
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Re: Balancing Iron III Hydroxide yields Iron III Oxide plus Water?
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2008, 12:13:08 AM »
Hello! it is actually not as hard as you think!

Fe(OH)3  ---> Fe2O3 + H2O

Balance Iron first
2Fe(OH)3  ---> Fe2O3 + H2O
Balance the remaining hydrogen and oxygen with the water,(look at how many MORE oxygen atoms you need and add the integer to the water)
2Fe(OH)3  ---> Fe2O3 + ?H2O

hope this helps some..
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Re: Balancing Iron III Hydroxide yields Iron III Oxide plus Water?
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2008, 01:11:53 AM »
2Fe(OH)3 contain 6 hydrogen atoms. How much water molecules can be formed? Finally check number of oxygen atoms on both sides for goodness sake.
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Re: Balancing Iron III Hydroxide yields Iron III Oxide plus Water?
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2008, 10:50:45 PM »
Your resulting answer should be:

2Fe(OH)3  :rarrow: Fe2O3 + 3H2O
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