During Project 3: Week 1 the goal was to synthesize an artificial kidney stone. If you were producing barium phosphate tribasic, what would be the correct stoichiometric coefficients for the reaction depicted below? Ba(NO3)2 (aq) + Na3PO4 (aq) → Ba3(PO4)2 (s) + NaNO3 (aq)

the correct stoichiometric coefficients will be

3:2= 1:6

Explanation:

3Ba(NO3)2 (aq) + 2Na3PO4 (aq) → Ba3(PO4)2 (s) + 6NaNO3 (aq)

From the equation of reaction,

3 moles of Ba(NO3)2 (aq) will require 2 moles of Na3PO4 , to give 1 mole of Ba3(PO4)2 (s) and 6moles of NaNO3 (aq)

answer is: c. the experiment shows that the red substance experienced a chemical change.

this is chemical change (chemical reaction), because two new substances are formed (metalig liquid and gas), the atoms are rearranged and the reaction is followed by an energy change.

this is example of chemical decomposition.

chemical decomposition (analysis) is the separation of a single chemical compound into its two or more elemental parts or to simpler compounds.  

chemical decomposition is opposite of chemical synthesis.