Hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide to produce sodium chloride and water. If 20.6 g of sodium hydroxide reacts with an excess of hydrochloric acid, how many grams of sodium chloride are produced? HCl + NaOH → NaCl + H2O

30.1 g NaCl

Explanation:

Your first conversion is converting grams NaOH to moles of NaOH using its molar mass (39.997 g/mol). Then, use the mole ratio of 1 mol NaCl for every 1 mol NaOH to get to moles of NaCl. Then finally multiply by the molar mass of NaCl (58.44 g/mol) to get grams of NaCl.

20.6 g NaOH • (1 mol NaOH / 39.997 g NaOH) • (1 mol NaCl / 1 mol NaOH) • (58.44 g NaCl / 1 mol NaCl) = 30.1 g NaCl

a mercury barometer is a device that uses the physical properties of mercury in a tube to measure barometric pressure. mercury barometers are used for : -

1. measurement of atmospheric pressure  

2. determining the altitude of a place

3. weather forecasting

4. calibration and checking of aneroid barometers

5. application in fluid mechanics

6. measurement of pressure in aircrafts

7. surface weather analysis

8. preparation of barographs

9. usage in physical sciences like physics, astronomy & chemistry

10. preparation of aircraft altimeters

characteristics of mercury barometer : -

1.used to define and measure atmospheric pressure.

2.on the average at sea level the column of mercury rises to a height of about 760 mm.

3.this quantity is equal to 1 atmosphere.

4.it is also known as standard atmospheric pressure.

5.a barometer in which the weight of a column of mercury in a glass tube with a sealed top is balanced against that of the atmosphere pressing on an exposed cistern of mercury at the base of the mercury column, the height of the column varying with atmospheric pressure.

answer: -

reaction:

na + cl ⇌ nacl

balanced chemical equation:

na + 2cl ⇌ nacl2

sodium + clorine goes to form sodium chloride (table salt).

the product is nacl2.

and the reactants are na and cl.

(note: if you don’t know what ⇌ means, read below: -

⇌(double head arrow) means reversible reaction).