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Monday, July 8, 2019

A Complication with the Production of Gases

H2S is a gas under normal circumstances. In fact, this gas is the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs.

The other three of the gases mentioned before are not actually gases. They are unstable compounds that immediately decompose to form gases.

H2CO3H2O+CO2 
H2SO3H2O+SO2
NH4OHH2O+NH3 

That means that the reaction between HCl and Li2CO3 could be written 2 ways:
2HCl+Li2CO3H2CO3+2LiCl
or
2HCl+Li2CO3H2O+CO2+2LiCl

The second is more complicated, but also more honest.

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