Starting with 5.00 g barium chloride n hydrate yields 4.26 g of anhydrous barium chloride after heating. Determine the integer n.

BaCl₂·(H₂O)₂

Explanation:

The reaction that takes place is:

The information given by the problem tells us that 5.00 g of reactant were consumed. Of those 5.00 g, 4.26 g were converted into BaCl₂, this means that the other 0.74 g were converted into water.

We convert 0.74 g of water into moles, using its molar mass:

Then we convert 4.26 g of BaCl₂ into moles:

We can write these results as (BaCl₂)₀.₀₂·(H₂O)₀.₀₄. We multiply those coefficients by 50 in order to make them integers, and we're left with:

answer is: c. the experiment shows that the red substance experienced a chemical change.

this is chemical change (chemical reaction), because two new substances are formed (metalig liquid and gas), the atoms are rearranged and the reaction is followed by an energy change.

this is example of chemical decomposition.

chemical decomposition (analysis) is the separation of a single chemical compound into its two or more elemental parts or to simpler compounds.  

chemical decomposition is opposite of chemical synthesis.

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