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Ammonium phosphomolybdate
« on: June 24, 2014, 02:21:34 PM »
Let us say you have this salt: KH2PO4. To this salt you add HCl(aq):

KH2PO4(s) + HCl(aq) --> KCl(aq) + H2PO4-(aq) + H+(aq)     (equation 1)
 
Now phosphate reacts with added molybdate in an acidic enviroment:
 
H2PO4-(aq) + H+(aq) + (NH4)2MoO4(aq)  --> (NH4)3[PMo12O40](s) (equation 2)
 
 
According to a lab manual, the product on the right side of the reaction in Eq. 2 is correct. The manual only states that phosphate reacts with molybdate and creates the product in equation 2 - not what the reactions in question look like. Have I made something correct? Is the balancing of this equation "only" a matter of stoichiometry skills?
 
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Re: Ammonium phosphomolybdate
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2014, 04:36:26 PM »
Be consistent about ions - whatever is dissolved is dissociated, whatever is solid, is not. Mixing KCl(aq) and H2PO4-(aq) and H+(aq) in one equation doesn't make sense.

Final reaction equation should be just that of free ions combining into a single precipitate.
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