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Textbook Solutions for General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life

Chapter 6 Problem 16CI

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When clothes have stains, bleach is often added to the wash to react with the soil and make the stains colorless. One brand of bleach contains 5.25% sodium hypochlorite by mass (active ingredient) with a density of 1.08 g/mL. The liquid bleach solution is prepared by bubbling chlorine gas into a solution of sodium hydroxide to produce sodium hypochlorite, sodium chloride, and water. (1.10, 5.2, 5.4, 6.1, 6.4, 6.5, 6.8) The active component of bleach is sodium hypochlorite.a. What is the chemical formula and molar mass of sodium hypochlorite?b. How many hypochlorite ions are present in 1.00 gallon of bleach solution?c. Write the balanced equation for the preparation of bleach.d. How many grams of NaOH are required to produce the mass of sodium hypochlorite in 1.00 gallon of bleach?e. If 165 g of Cl2 is passed through a solution containing 275 g of NaOH and 162 g of sodium hypochlorite is produced, what is the percent yield of sodium hypochlorite for the reaction?

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Title General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life 4 
Author Karen C. Timberlake
ISBN 9780321750891

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