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If 35.6 g of nitrogen with 7.69 g of hydrogen are combined in a closed system, what mass of ammonia will be produced?

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Consider the balanced reaction,

N₂ + 3 H₂ ⇒ 2 NH₃

which says that 1 mole of nitrogen gas combines with 3 moles of hydrogen gas to produce 2 moles of ammonia gas.

Look up the molar masses of each element:

• N has a molar mass of 14.007 g/mol

• H has a molar mass of 1.008 g/mol

Then the reaction starts with

• (35.6 g) (1/28.014 mol/g) ≈ 1.27 mol N₂

• (7.69 g) (1/2.016 mol/g) ≈ 3.81 mol H₂

which means we have nearly exactly 3 times as many moles of H₂ as we do of N₂. These will combine to make 2 * 1.27 = 2.54 moles of NH₃, which has a molar mass of 17.031 g/mol, and so the reaction produces

(2.54 mol) (17.031 g/mol) ≈ 43.3 g NH₃

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