CHEM 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ammonium Nitrate, Silver Chloride, Limiting Reagent
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Theoretical yield of the reaction: theoretical yield is the highest quantity of product that can be obtained from a given amount of limiting reactant. Chapter 6: types of chemical reactions and solution stoichiometry. Water dissolves an ionic solid by hydration: the ionic solid breaks up into individual cations and anions. Each ion is surrounded and stabilized by many water molecules: the process is called hydration. The hydration of the ions by water molecules causes the solid to dissolve in water: the strong forces present among the positive and negative ions of the solid are replaced by water-ion interactions. Solubility of ionic substances: all ionic substances are not equally soluble. The solubility of an ionic solid is determined by the competition between ion-ion attraction in the solid and ion- water attraction in solution. Ammonium nitrate is highly soluble, whereas silver chloride is slightly soluble.
