Answer to Question #151757 in General Chemistry for aaron

Question

Given the balanced equation below, how many moles of barium nitrate react to form 24 moles of nitric acid?
1 H2SO4 + 1 Ba(NO3)2 → 1 BaSO4 + 2 HNO3

Answer 1

According to the given balanced reaction

2 mol HNO3 is obtained from 1 mol BaNO3

24 mol HNO3 is obtained from = (1\2) ×24

= 12 mol BaNO3 (ans)