A large quantity of a reactant that precipitates solid gold from gold in solution was added to a large sample of ocean water, but only a trace amount of solid gold resulted after filtering the mixture. What do you think could be the problem? Describe one of the reactants as a limiting reagent in your answer.

the answer is c i believe

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answer : third trial had the contaminated sample and the correct value for dhrxn should be 1000 kj/mol

explanation :

let us write down the given equations

equation 1 :

equation 2 :

equation 3 :

let us use hess's law to find out which 2 equations can be added to get the third equation.

let us reverse equation 2 and multiply it by 2. the new equation that we get is,

equation 4 :

let us add equation 1 & 4

the above equation is similar to equation 3 but has different value for dhrxn.

therefore third trial had the contaminated sample and the correct value for dhrxn should be 1000 kj/mol