{"id":236527,"date":"2025-06-16T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=236527"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:09:16","slug":"naoh-h2so4%e2%86%92-na2so4-h2o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/16\/naoh-h2so4%e2%86%92-na2so4-h2o\/","title":{"rendered":"NaOH + H2SO4\u2192 Na2SO4 + H2O . Balance the given chemical equation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NaOH + H2SO4\u2192 Na2SO4 + H2O . Balance the given chemical equation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Balanced Chemical Equation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2NaOH + H\u2082SO\u2084 \u2192 Na\u2082SO\u2084 + 2H\u2082O<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a <strong>neutralization reaction<\/strong>, where <strong>sodium hydroxide (NaOH)<\/strong>, a strong base, reacts with <strong>sulfuric acid (H\u2082SO\u2084)<\/strong>, a strong acid. The products are <strong>sodium sulfate (Na\u2082SO\u2084)<\/strong>, a salt, and <strong>water (H\u2082O)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To balance this chemical equation, it is important to ensure that the number of atoms for each element is the same on both sides. Begin by writing the skeleton equation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NaOH + H\u2082SO\u2084 \u2192 Na\u2082SO\u2084 + H\u2082O<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now examine each element:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Sodium (Na):<\/strong> On the left, there is one Na atom in NaOH. On the right, Na\u2082SO\u2084 contains two Na atoms. So, place a coefficient of <strong>2<\/strong> in front of NaOH: 2NaOH + H\u2082SO\u2084 \u2192 Na\u2082SO\u2084 + H\u2082O<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sulfur (S) and Oxygen (O) in Sulfate (SO\u2084):<\/strong> There is one sulfate ion (SO\u2084) on both sides, so sulfur and the four oxygen atoms in sulfate are already balanced.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hydrogen (H):<\/strong> On the left, there are two hydrogen atoms from two NaOH molecules and two more from H\u2082SO\u2084, totaling four hydrogen atoms. On the right, H\u2082O has two hydrogen atoms per molecule. Therefore, two H\u2082O molecules are needed to have four hydrogen atoms in total. So, place a coefficient of <strong>2<\/strong> in front of H\u2082O: 2NaOH + H\u2082SO\u2084 \u2192 Na\u2082SO\u2084 + 2H\u2082O<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, all elements are balanced:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Sodium (Na):<\/strong> 2 on both sides<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sulfur (S):<\/strong> 1 on both sides<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oxygen (O):<\/strong> 4 from sulfate and 2 from water on both sides<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hydrogen (H):<\/strong> 4 on both sides<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This balanced equation represents a complete neutralization where one molecule of sulfuric acid reacts with two molecules of sodium hydroxide to form one molecule of sodium sulfate and two molecules of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner10-212.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236529\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaOH + H2SO4\u2192 Na2SO4 + H2O . Balance the given chemical equation The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Balanced Chemical Equation: 2NaOH + H\u2082SO\u2084 \u2192 Na\u2082SO\u2084 + 2H\u2082O Explanation: This is a neutralization reaction, where sodium hydroxide (NaOH), a strong base, reacts with sulfuric acid (H\u2082SO\u2084), a strong acid. The products are sodium sulfate (Na\u2082SO\u2084), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}