When baking soda (sodium bicarbonate or sodium hydrogen carbonate, nahco3) is heated, it releases carbon dioxide gas, which is responsible for the rising of cookies, doughnuts, and bread.

a) write a balanced equation for the decomposition of the compound (one of the products is na2co3).
b) calculate the mass of nahco3 required to produce 20.5 g of co2.

a. NaHCO₃ + HCl → NaCl + H₂O + CO₂

b. 39.14 g is the mass of NaHCO₃ required to produce 20.5 moles of CO₂

Explanation:

A possible reaction for NaHCO₃ to make dioxide is this one, when it reacts with hydrochloric to produce the mentioned gas.

NaHCO₃ + HCl → NaCl + H₂O + CO₂

Ratio in this reaction is 1:1

So 1 mol of baking soda, produce 1 mol of CO₂

Let's calculate the moles

20.5 g CO₂ / 44 g/m = 0.466 moles

This moles of gas came from the same moles of salt.

Molar mass baking soda = 84 g/m

Molar mass . moles = mass

84 g/m .  0.466 moles = 39.14 g

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a). in this case, dh> 0 and sd> 0. if t becomes larger, the term "-tds" will become more negative. at some point, it is possible that -dts will be more negative than the dh is positive, and the reaction will become spontaneous. this is probably the correct answer, but you should look at all of the other possibilities and make sure of that.