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Offline Fzang

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Products in water as pure phases or (aq)?
« on: December 14, 2010, 05:39:53 AM »
If

A + B -> C

And C is a solid, eg. a salt which is highly soluble in water and the reaction above is happening in aqueous solution, should C be noted as (aq) or (s)?

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Re: Products in water as pure phases or (aq)?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2010, 06:52:52 AM »
Aqueous, unless I misunderstood your question as being simpler than it is. If it has high solubility in water then it won't form a precipitate and couldn't be regarded as a solid. Granted my answer is disregarding temperature, volume of water, moles of product, and possible exceptions I was never taught.

HCl(aq) + NaOH(aq) :rarrow: NaCl(aq)

Yet NaCl itself is a solid when not in water.
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Re: Products in water as pure phases or (aq)?
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2010, 08:21:40 AM »
As Fluorine noted, you would only mark it as (s) if the product precipitated out of solution.

HCl(aq) + NaOH(aq) :rarrow: NaCl(aq)

Yet NaCl itself is a solid when not in water.

...as is NaOH. Just saying  :P

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Re: Products in water as pure phases or (aq)?
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2010, 12:33:53 PM »
Thanks guys :)

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