When hot lava reaches seawater, the salts in the water react with steam to form gaseous hydrochloric acid. you are given an unbalanced chemical equation for one such reaction and the volume of hcl(g) produced. explain how you would find the mass of solid sea salt needed to produce the given gas volume.

First, I would balance the chemical equation.

I would convert the volume of HCl to mol HCl by dividing by the molar volume.

Next, I would use the balanced equation to find out how many moles of the salt are needed to produce the moles of HCl.

Finally, I would multiply by the molar mass of the salt to convert moles to mass.

because natural gas is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, distributors add mercaptan (a chemical that smells like sulfur) to give natural gas a distinct unpleasant odor (it smells like rotten eggs). they locate the types of rock that are likely to contain natural gas deposits.

hydrocarbons are organic compounds that contain only hydrogens and carbons. they can be saturated (those which contain only carbon-carbon single bonds) or unsaturated (those which contain carbon-carbon double or triple bonds) in nature. hydrocarbons can undergo several reactions like substitution, elimination etc.  

on substituting one or more hydrogen atoms in hydrocarbon it results in the formation of haloalkane. as the halogen atoms are large compared to the carbon and hydrogen atoms, due to which the molecular weight increases and the bond become polar because of presence electronegative halogen atom and results in the increase in boiling point of the haloalkane.

thus, the correct option is (b) that is the boiling point of the new compound increases on substituting a hydrogen atom with a halogen in a hydrocarbon.