Sodium chloride reacts with silver nitrate to produce silver chloride and sodium nitrate
- Write the equation.
- Check whether it is balanced, if not balance it.
- Find the weights of reactants and products.
- State the law which this equation satisfies.
- NaCl+ AgNO3 → NaNO3 + AgCl↓
- It is a balanced equation.
c. Weights of reactants:NaCl - 58.44, AgNO3 - 169.87
Weights of products: NaNO3 - 84.99, AgCl - 143.32
NaCl + AgNO3 → NaNO3 + AgCl
(23+35.5) + (108+14+48) → (23+14+48) + (108+35.5)
58.5 + 170 → 85 + 143.5
228.5 g → 228.5 g
d. Law of conservation of mass: Matter is neither created nor destroyed in the course of a chemical reaction.



