A piece of iron was placed in a silver nitrate solution. After the reaction iron's mass increased by 3.52g. How many moles of #"Fe"("NO"_3)_2# were produced?
The net ionic equation that describes this reaction looks like this
The silver metal produced by the reaction will be deposited on the piece of iron. As a result, its mass will increase.
Now, here's where the tricky part comes in. Keep in mind that some of the iron will be converted to iron(II) cations. This means that if you disregard the deposited silver, the piece of iron will actually have a smaller mass once the reaction is completed.
This means that the mass of iron that was converted to iron(II) cations was
The mass of the piece of iron after the reaction is completed, once again disregarding the mass of silver deposited, will be
Use the molar mass of silver to find the mass of silver metal produced by the reaction
This mass is added to the mass of iron to get the total mass of the piece of iron, i.e. iron + deposited silver
This is equivalent to
you will have
The answer is rounded to three sig figs.
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To determine the number of moles of ( \text{Fe}(\text{NO}_3)_2 ) produced, we first need to calculate the change in the number of moles of iron (( \text{Fe} )) based on the change in mass. Then, using the stoichiometry of the reaction between iron and silver nitrate, we can determine the number of moles of ( \text{Fe}(\text{NO}_3)_2 ) produced.
The molar mass of iron (( \text{Fe} )) is approximately 55.845 g/mol. Since the iron's mass increased by 3.52 g, we can calculate the change in moles of iron as follows:
[ \text{Change in moles of Fe} = \frac{\text{Change in mass}}{\text{Molar mass of Fe}} ]
[ \text{Change in moles of Fe} = \frac{3.52 \text{ g}}{55.845 \text{ g/mol}} ]
[ \text{Change in moles of Fe} \approx 0.063 \text{ mol} ]
The stoichiometry of the reaction between iron and silver nitrate (( \text{AgNO}_3 )) is:
[ \text{Fe} + 2\text{AgNO}_3 \rightarrow \text{Fe}(\text{NO}_3)_2 + 2\text{Ag} ]
From the balanced equation, we see that 1 mole of iron reacts with 1 mole of ( \text{Fe}(\text{NO}_3)_2 ). Therefore, the number of moles of ( \text{Fe}(\text{NO}_3)_2 ) produced is equal to the change in moles of iron:
[ \text{Moles of Fe}(\text{NO}_3)_2 = \text{Change in moles of Fe} ]
[ \text{Moles of Fe}(\text{NO}_3)_2 \approx 0.063 \text{ mol} ]
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