[DMOC]

What mass of silver is produced when 2 moles of iron react with silver nitrate (in a beaker and an aqueous solution). Iron is the limiting reagant.

Is the initial equation

Fe_{2 (aq)} + 2AgNO_{3 (aq)}  2Fe(NO₃)_{2 (aq)} + 2Ag_(aq)

Btw I'm not told if it's Iron II or Iron III

[stewie griffin]

First thing you need to do is balance the chemical equation. What have written there isn't balanced.

[Borek]

Fe_{2 (aq)}

Since when is iron diatomic?

Since when it is soluble?

[DMOC]

Uh oh ... looks like I didn't do it right.

How about this?

Fe + 2AgNO_{3 (aq)}   Fe(NO₃)_{2 (aq)} + 2Ag

Or do I need to have 2 as the coefficient of Fe? (Which would change the balancing of the equation accordingly.)