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Chemistry
Senior High School
You are given 600 grams of sodium chloride (NaCl), but you are planning to purify the substance and extract just the sodium. How many moles of Na can you theoretically extract from 600 grams of NaCl? Explain your reasoning.

Moles of Na theoretically extract : 10.256

Given

600 g of NaCl

Required

moles of Na

Solution

Na can be electrolyzed from NaCl(molten)

Na⁺ + e⁻⇒ Na

Cl⁻⇒1/2 Cl₂ + e⁻

Overall reaction :

NaCl⇒Na + 1/2 Cl₂ x2

2NaCl⇒2Na + Cl₂

mol of NaCl(MW=58.5 g/mol) :

= 600 g : 58.5 g/mol

= 10.256

From the equation, mol ratio of NaCl : Na = 2 : 1, so :

mol Na = mol NaCl = 10.256

explanation:

let the different atoms be x and y. each with four protons and same mass will be represented as follows.

mass number is number of protons + number of neutrons.

            and  

since, it is given that one has a negative charge while the other is neutral. therefore, there will be increase in number of protons and the atom will be represented as follows.

according to periodic table, mass number of beryllium is 9 and it has atomic number 4 so, the atoms will be and .  

the protons and neutrons will be located inside the nucleus whereas the electrons will be revolving around the nucleus.