Question

Write a balanced chemical equation for the following:
Reaction of sodium hydroxide solution with iron (III) chloride solution.

Answer 1

The balanced chemical reaction is a chemical reaction in which all the elements in the reactant side will be equal to the number of elements on the product side then only the chemical reaction is going to be called as a balanced chemical reaction.

Complete answer:
- In the question it is asked to write the balanced chemical reaction of sodium hydroxide solution with iron (III) chloride.
- To write a balanced chemical reaction we should know the chemical formula of the compounds that are involved.
- The chemical formula of sodium hydroxide is NaOH and the chemical formula of iron (III) chloride is $FeC{{l}_{3}}$ .
- Aqueous sodium hydroxide reacts with iron (III) chloride or ferric chloride and forms ferric hydroxide and sodium chloride as the product.
- The balanced chemical reaction of aqueous sodium hydroxide with ferric chloride is as follows.
$FeC{{l}_{3}}+3NaOH(aq)\to Fe{{(OH)}_{3}}+3NaCl$
- In the above balanced chemical ferric chloride is going to react with 3 moles of sodium hydroxide and forms ferric hydroxide and three moles of sodium chloride as the products.
- In the above chemical reaction we can see that the number of all the elements in the reactant side is equal to the number of elements involved in 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.