To measure the amount of iron in a certain type of iron ore, an analytical chemist dissolves a sample in strong acid and titrates it to the endpoint with of potassium permanganate solution. The balanced chemical equation for the reaction is:

Explanation:

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In this case, for the described chemical reaction, we find it is:

Because it says that the iron is dissolved in a strong acid which provides addition hydrogen ions to the reaction media. Thus, for the questions attached on the figure we find:

- This a REDOX reaction because we see iron is being oxidized from 2+ to 3+ and manganese reduced from +7 to +2.

- Since it is a redox reaction and the oxidized species is that undergoing an oxidation number increase, we evidence iron goes from +2 to +3, which means iron is the oxidized species.

- In this case, for the used 59.2 mL (0.0592 L) of the 0.2000 M solution of potassium permanganate, we can compute the consumed grams of iron via stoichiometry including the 5:1 mole ratio between them in the chemical reaction:

It means that the percent of iron in that sample is:

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"you start with 15.67 g mgco3-xh2o, when heated and all the water is removed, you are left with 7.58 g mgco3 only.

therefore, you had 15.67 - 7.58 = 8.09g h2o  

moles of each :

7.58g mgco3 = ? moles = 7.58g / 83.4g/mole = 0.09moles  

8 09g h2o = ? moles = 8.09g / 18g/mole = 0.44moles  

molar ratio between the two by dividing both numbers by the smallest number :

0.09 / 0.09 = 1  

0.44 / 0.09 = 4.8  

mgco3-5h2o"

answer:

the answer is 6 valence electrons.

explanation:

valence is the # of electrons on the outer most shell of an atom.

oxygen has 6.

although, the valency of oxygen is 2, because it only needs to make 2 covalent bonds, or gain 2 electrons, to achieve the stable octet configuration of a noble gas.

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