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For the following reaction, you obtained 7.2 g of sodium sulfate, starting from 10 g of sulfuric acid. Sodium hydroxide is in excess. What is the % yield? H2SO4 + 2NaOH → Na2SO4 + 2H2O

  1. Identify the limiting reagent: you have been told sodium hydroxide is in excess, so you know sulfuric acid is the limiting reagent

  2. Calculate the moles of the limiting reagent: ...

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Crude oil is a fossil fuel - what is a fossil fuel and how is crude oil separated into its fractions?

A fossil fuel is a substance like coal, oil, or natural gas formed from decayed plant or animal remains which can be burned to produce energy and power. Crude oil is separated by fractional distillation -...

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Define relative atomic mass.

Relative atomic mass is the mass of one atom of an element compared to 1/12 of the mass of an atom of carbon-12.

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Explain why sulfur deviates from the general trend in ionisation energies across period 3.

Sulfur has the electronic structure [Ne]3s2 3p4. This means there are 2 electrons in the same p orbital. These repel each other making it easier to remove the electron causing the ionisation energy to be ...

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Describe how and explain why vegetable oils are hardened for use in foods

Vegetable oils are unsaturated because they contain lots of carbon-carbon double bonds. If we react them with hydrogen at 60oC in the presence of nickel catalyst they will become saturated, also called ha...

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