A piece of sodium metal is added to a beaker of water. One of the products is hydrogen gas. Name the other product. Give the full name, not the symbol.
When a metal combines with water, metal hydroxide is formed, as well as hydrogen gas.
The equation in which the total number of individual atoms on the reactant side equals the total number of individual atoms on the product side is known as a balanced chemical equation.
For the reaction of sodium metal with water, a balanced chemical equation is as follows:
2 Na +2 H20 ---> H2 + 2 NAOH
- The equation above is balanced.
By Stoichiometry of the reaction:
2 moles of sodium metal reacts with 2 moles of water to produce 2 moles of sodium hydroxide and 1 mole of hydrogen gas
Hence, the other product in the given reaction is sodium hydroxide
