How hydrochloric acid reduce #PbCl_4# to lead metal, and oxidize chloride to chlorine gas?
1 Answer
Apr 10, 2017
Explanation:
Chloride ion is oxidized to chlorine gas:
And thus
Which is balanced with respect to mass and charge.
We can write a more conventional stoichiometric equation, by substituting the ions for the parent compounds.......
Is this balanced with respect to mass and charge?