Question

Does water added to a flask containing chlorine gas and solid sodium react in the chemical reaction to make sodium chloride

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Chemically, we can have a reaction between chlorine gas and solid sodium

This reaction is actually explosive and would produce fine powder of sodium chloride

We have the reaction as follows:

`2Na_((s))+Cl_(2(g))\rightarrow2NaCl_((s))`

Essentally, what we can deduce from here is that we do not need to add water to the flask. Except for the reason that we would want the sodium chloride solid in the solution form, there is absolutely no reason to add water to the flask as the reaction would proceed normally