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If you started with 225 grams of silver nitrate and 75.0 grams of hydrobromic acid what will be left in the container after the reaction has ended?

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To find out what remains after silver nitrate reacts with hydrobromic acid, we need the balanced chemical equation and the stoichiometry of the reaction. Without this information, we cannot identify the limiting reagent or calculate the exact remaining amounts. In a similar situation with excess silver nitrate, hydrobromic acid would be the limiting reagent, leaving behind unused silver nitrate and produced nitric acid.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine what will be left in the container after the reaction between silver nitrate and hydrobromic acid, we need to know the balanced chemical equation for this reaction. The reaction will produce silver bromide (AgBr) and nitric acid (HNO3). However, without the stoichiometric coefficients, we cannot directly determine which reactant is the limiting reagent and the exact amounts of products and remaining reactants.

If we assume that the reaction goes to completion and all of the limiting reactant is used up, then one of the products would be silver bromide precipitate, which is insoluble in water. The other would be nitric acid, which remains in solution. To identify the limiting reagent and what will be left over after the reaction, one would need to use the molar masses of the reactants and the stoichiometric coefficients from the balanced equation to perform stoichiometric calculations.

In a scenario similar to our example with silver nitrate and sodium chloride, if the reaction is carried out in such a way that the silver nitrate is in excess, then hydrobromic acid would be the limiting reagent and there would be leftover silver nitrate in the container along with the produced nitric acid after the reaction.

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