Question

Hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide to produce sodium chloride and water. If 20.6 g of sodium hydroxide reacts with an excess of hydrochloric acid, how many grams of sodium chloride are produced? HCl + NaOH → NaCl + H2O

Answer 1

30.1 g NaCl

Step-by-step explanation:

Your first conversion is converting grams NaOH to moles of NaOH using its molar mass (39.997 g/mol). Then, use the mole ratio of 1 mol NaCl for every 1 mol NaOH to get to moles of NaCl. Then finally multiply by the molar mass of NaCl (58.44 g/mol) to get grams of NaCl.

20.6 g NaOH • (1 mol NaOH / 39.997 g NaOH) • (1 mol NaCl / 1 mol NaOH) • (58.44 g NaCl / 1 mol NaCl) = 30.1 g NaCl