You are given quantities of aluminum sulfate, Al2(SO4)3, and sulfuric acid, H2SO4. If there are EQUAL numbers of SULFUR atoms with respect to each salt, what is the ratio of oxygen atoms...Al2(SO4)3:H2SO4?

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anor277
Feb 1, 2016

If the number of sulfur atoms are EQUAL, then the ratio of oxygen atoms, (Al2(SO4)3:H2SO4) = 1:1

Explanation:

It is given that both salts contain the same number of sulfur atoms. Thus we have Al2S3O12, and necessarily 3 × H2SO4. There are 3 equiv sulfuric acid per equiv aluminum sufate, and necessarily 12 equiv of O atoms in the acid. And (if I have been doing my sums correctly), the ratio of oxygens is 1:1.

This is a nasty question, which I suspect has been asked below A level.

PS You have just asked a bunch of questions. Do you think that you could spend some time formatting the questions properly? It makes interpreting the question a much easier proposition.

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