How do you balance the following equation: $A g + H_{2} S \to A g_{2} S + H_{2}$ $Ag + H_2S → Ag_2S + H_2$ ?

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How do you balance the following equation: $A g + H_{2} S \to A g_{2} S + H_{2}$ $Ag + H_2S → Ag_2S + H_2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-22T01:45:43

Put a coefficient of $2$ $2$ in the first $A g$ $Ag$ .

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Your equation is:

$A g (s) + H_{2} S (a q) \to A g_{2} S (a q) + H_{2} (g) ↑ ⏐$ $Ag(s)+H_2S(aq)->Ag_2S(aq)+H_2(g)uarr$

This is a common reaction between an acid and metal, where it produces a salt and hydrogen gas.

From here, I see that everything is balanced, except that there are two silver atoms on the right side, but only one on the left side, so we multiply $A g$ $Ag$ on the left by $2$ $2$ to get the balanced equation:

$2 A g (s) + H_{2} S (a q) \to A g_{2} S (a q) + H_{2} (g) ↑ ⏐$ $2Ag(s)+H_2S(aq)->Ag_2S(aq)+H_2(g)uarr$

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