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Offline missconfused11

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Balancing redox reactions in a Basic Solution?
« on: November 01, 2010, 09:30:04 PM »
The problem is:
CN1- + MnO41- ---> CNO1- + MnO2

so far I got
2OH- + CN1----> CNO1- + H2O

and

H2O + MnO4---> OH- + MnO2

did i balanced those right?

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Re: Balancing redox reactions in a Basic Solution?
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2010, 09:52:55 PM »
You need to balance the charges on this one:

2OH- + CN1- ---> CNO1- + H2O

And this one is not balanced:

H2O + MnO4-  --> OH- + MnO2

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Re: Balancing redox reactions in a Basic Solution?
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2010, 10:12:25 PM »
ahh...i saw my mistakes after as soon as I posted my question and started all over from scratch and for the result I got

3CN- + 2MnO41- ---> 3CNO- + 2MnO2 + 2OH-

but please let me know if there are many mistakes made
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Re: Balancing redox reactions in a Basic Solution?
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2010, 11:56:04 PM »
Are the oxygen's balanced?
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