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Can anyone balance: barium chloride + silver phosphate yields silver chloride + barium phosphate ?
cgs said:Can anyone balance: barium chloride + silver phosphate yields silver chloride + barium phosphate ?
The chemical formula for barium chloride is BaCl2 and the chemical formula for silver phosphate is Ag3PO4.
To balance the equation, you first need to count the number of atoms on each side. There are 3 Ba atoms, 2 Cl atoms, 1 Ag atom, and 4 O atoms on the left side, and 3 Ba atoms, 2 P atoms, 8 O atoms, and 1 Cl atom on the right side. To balance the number of Ba atoms, you need to add a coefficient of 3 in front of Ba3(PO4)2, making it 3Ba3(PO4)2. To balance the number of Cl atoms, you need to add a coefficient of 2 in front of AgCl, making it 2AgCl. The final balanced equation is 3BaCl2 + 2Ag3PO4 → Ba3(PO4)2 + 2AgCl.
The balancing barium chloride and silver phosphate equation is a double displacement reaction, also known as a metathesis reaction. This type of reaction involves the exchange of ions between two compounds, resulting in the formation of two new compounds.
The products of the balanced equation are Ba3(PO4)2 and AgCl. These are the compounds that are formed after the reaction takes place between barium chloride and silver phosphate.
It is important to balance chemical equations because it shows the conservation of mass. This means that the number of atoms of each element on the reactant side is equal to the number of atoms of that element on the product side. Balancing equations also helps in understanding the stoichiometry of a reaction, which is the quantitative relationship between the reactants and products.