How do you determine the formula for aluminium hydroxide?

Answer 1

"Criss-cross" the charges of each atom because it is an ionic compound. This will get you #Al(OH)_"3"#.

Aluminum has a chemical symbol of #Al#, with a charge of 3+. Hydroxide is a molecule consisting of two elements - hydrogen and oxygen. The chemical formula for hydroxide is #OH^(1-)#.

Aluminum is the cation, while hydroxide is the anion, thus we get #Al(OH)_"3"#. This is because we still "criss-cross" the charges as it is an ionic compound - electrons are transferred - so aluminum's charge of 3+ goes to hydroxide while its charge of 1- goes to aluminum.

The 1 is redundant so we don't write it in.

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Answer 2

Wyatt Adkins

The formula for aluminum hydroxide is Al(OH)3.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.