Lithium arsenate (Li3AsO4) and iron nitrate (Fe(NO3)3) are dissolved in water. What precipitate would you expect to form? Write the name and formula. (use the solubility table to help)

Salts with nitrates as the anion are generally soluble in water. The question isn’t quite clear: Are we being asked what precipitate would form of these solutions were mixed together? If that’s the case, the reaction would be as follows:

Li3AsO4(aq)+ Fe(NO3)3(aq) → 3LiNO3(aq) + FeAsO4(s).

It is odd that we’re given lithium arsenate dissolved in water to begin with as lithium arsenate should be insoluble. But assuming that it is water-soluble, we can obtain the net ionic equation for the formation of our precipitate:

Fe3+(aq) + [AsO4]3-(aq) → FeAsO4(s).

Our precipitate would be iron(iii) arsenate, FeAsO4.