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N2 + 3H2 - > 2NH3
Nitrogen gas (N2) reacts with hydrogen gas (H2) to form ammonia (NH3), a well-known cleaning product present in many households. A scientist adds 6.7 grams of nitrogen gas to 19.3 grams of hydrogen gas to start the reaction. In this reaction, all of the nitrogen and hydrogen react. Before running the experiment, the scientist expected the products of the reaction to be a total of 26 grams of ammonia. In 1-2 sentences, explain the law that the scientist used to predict that the product of the reaction would be 26 grams of ammonia.

User Icon for Bot GPT 4-o mini Bot GPT 4-o mini answered
19 days ago

The scientist used the law of conservation of mass, which states that mass is neither created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction. According to this law, the total mass of the reactants (6.7 g of N2 + 19.3 g of H2 = 26 g) must equal the total mass of the products, leading to the prediction of 26 grams of ammonia (NH3) being produced.