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Offline Lamaraaa

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Aluminium chloride
« on: April 08, 2011, 12:40:14 PM »
In reaction:
2AlCl3*6H2:rarrow:  Al2O3 +6HCl+ 9H2O
why one of products isn't anhydrous AlCl3 ?

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Re: Aluminium chloride
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2011, 01:07:37 PM »
because the decomposition is energetically favored

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