Question

What are the word and balanced chemical equations for the reactions between sodium carbonate and nitric acid?

Answer 1

If we are going to write the chemical reaction in the form of words then it is called word chemical reaction and if we are going to use the chemical symbols to write the chemical reaction by balancing the number of reactants and products is called balanced chemical reaction.

Complete answer:
- In the question it is given to write the word and balanced chemical reaction for the reaction between sodium carbonate and nitric acid.
- First we will write the word chemical reaction between sodium carbonate and nitric acid and it is as follows.
Sodium carbonate + Nitric acid $\to$ sodium nitrate + water + carbon dioxide.
- To write the balanced chemical reaction between sodium carbonate and nitric acid we should know the chemical formula of them.
- The chemical formula of sodium carbonate is $N{{a}_{2}}C{{O}_{3}}$ and the chemical formula of nitric acid is $HN{{O}_{3}}$ .
- Now we should know the chemical formulas of the products which are going to be formed by the reaction of sodium carbonate and nitric acid.
- The chemical formulas of the products, sodium nitrate is $NaN{{O}_{3}}$ , chemical formula of water is ${{H}_{2}}O$ and the chemical formula of carbon dioxide is $C{{O}_{2}}$ .
- So the overall balanced chemical reaction is as follows.
$N{{a}_{2}}C{{O}_{3}}+2HN{{O}_{3}}\to 2NaN{{O}_{3}}+C{{O}_{2}}+{{H}_{2}}O$
- In the balanced chemical reaction the number of elements in the reactants should be equal to the number of the elements on the product side.

Note:
From the balanced chemical equation we can find the number of elements of the chemical is going to participate in the chemical reaction and number of chemical elements formed in the product side with different chemical composition.