chemical equation question

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  1. damarco

    damarco Registered Member

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    In a sealed vessel xenon tetrafluoride, XeF4, reacts with hydrogen gas to give xenon gas and hydrogen fluoride gas.

    What is a balanced chemical equation, including state symbols, for this?
     
    damarco, Jan 3, 2009
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  3. ElectricFetus

    ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    2Xe-2 + 9HF+1 dumbass! We don't answer you homework problems here!
     
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    Dinosaur Rational Skeptic Valued Senior Member

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    It has been many years since I took a chemistry course, but I will give it a try.

    XeF[sub]4[/sub] + 2 H[sub]2[/sub] = Xe + 4HFl
     
    Dinosaur, Jan 7, 2009
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    Dinosaur Rational Skeptic Valued Senior Member

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    Sorry about the typo: I was thinking Cl for Chlorine & added an ell to the F for Fluorine

    XeF[sub]4[/sub] + 2H[sub]2[/sub] = Xe + 4HF
     
    Dinosaur, Jan 7, 2009
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    leopold, Jan 7, 2009
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  9. ElectricFetus

    ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    Xenon a noble gas, but under rare circumstance even helium can be made into a molecule, although in helium case it is truly bizarre.

    again, I should remind everyone about our "no homework questions" policy?
     
    ElectricFetus, Jan 7, 2009
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  10. John Connellan

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    Although nobody ever has made helium bind in a compound yet.

    So far such compounds are still only hypothetical:

    http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=14687
     
    John Connellan, Jan 7, 2009
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    No one has made a conventional stable helium compound, but helium hydride ions have been made and exist naturally. Also near absolute zero helium molecules have been formed
     
    ElectricFetus, Jan 7, 2009
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  12. John Connellan

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    Hmmm, strongest acid known. Interesting.
     
    John Connellan, Jan 7, 2009
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