Answer to Question #317358 in General Chemistry for Musonda 02

Question

An ingestion tablet contains a mass of 0.30 g of magnesium hydroxide [Mg(OH)2] as its only basic ingredient. The balanced chemical equation between magnesium and hydrochloric acid (HCl(aq)), the acid produced in the stomach is as follows:

Mg(OH)2(aq) + 2HCl(aq) ⟶ MgCl2(aq) + 2H2O(l)

i)Calculate the volume of 1.00 M HCl neutralised by two of these ingestion tablets?

ii)What mass of the salt is formed in this neutralisation reaction?

How many magnesium ions are present in this amount of a salt?

Answer 1

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