Question

What are the coefficients for the reaction _Cl2O5 + _H2O → _HClO3 once it is balanced?

Answer 1

What are the coefficients for the reaction _Cl2O5 + _H2O → _HClO3 once it is balanced?

1, 1, 2 is your answer

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

_Cl2O5 + _H2O → _HClO3

From the H2O, we see that HCLO3 will have to have a multiple of 2 in front, since we only get delivered an even number of oxygen atoms:

_Cl2O5 + _H2O → 2HClO3

Now, on the right side side we have 2 H atoms (same as on the left side), 2 Cl atoms (again, the same) and 6(2*3) oxygen atoms (again the same: 5 from the first part and one from the second.

So this is already our solution:

Cl2O5 + H2O → 2HClO3