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Offline bannanahammock

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Help revising?
« on: April 10, 2008, 10:40:33 PM »
Question:

Using .005mol of lead(II) nitrate solution produced 1.902g of lead(II) chloride. What is the percent yield for this reaction?

My reaction was:

3 Pb(NO3)2 + 2 FeCl3 = 3 PbCl2 + 2 Fe(NO3)3

Is this result accurate for yield %?:

.005 mol Pb(NO3)2 [ (3mol PbCl2 / 3mol Pb(NO3)2) ] [ ( 278.0g PbCl2 / mol PbCl2) = 1.39

( 1.902 / 1.39 ) 100 = 136.8%

Doesnt look right to me  ???

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Re: Help revising?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2008, 03:26:44 AM »
1.39g is a correct mass of PbCl2 that can be produced from 0.005 mole of Pb(NO3)2. 137% doesn't make much sense (unless your product is contaminated), but there is no error in the calculation.
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