{"id":270581,"date":"2025-07-25T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=270581"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:20:37","slug":"acetic-acid-reacts-with-barium-hydroxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/25\/acetic-acid-reacts-with-barium-hydroxide\/","title":{"rendered":"Acetic acid reacts with barium hydroxide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Acetic acid reacts with barium hydroxide. What is the sum of the coefficients for the reactants and products?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\">The correct answer and explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The balanced chemical equation for the reaction between acetic acid (CH\u2083COOH) and barium hydroxide (Ba(OH)\u2082) is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2CH\u2083COOH+Ba(OH)\u2082\u2192Ba(CH\u2083COO)\u2082+2H\u2082O2 \\text{CH\u2083COOH} + \\text{Ba(OH)\u2082} \\rightarrow \\text{Ba(CH\u2083COO)\u2082} + 2 \\text{H\u2082O}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To determine the sum of the coefficients, we add the coefficients of the reactants and products:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reactants: 2 (CH\u2083COOH) + 1 (Ba(OH)\u2082) = 3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Products: 1 (Ba(CH\u2083COO)\u2082) + 2 (H\u2082O) = 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the sum of the coefficients for the reactants and products is 3 + 3 = 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Acetic acid (CH\u2083COOH) is a weak acid, and barium hydroxide (Ba(OH)\u2082) is a strong base. When these two substances react, they undergo an acid-base neutralization reaction. In this reaction, the hydrogen ions (H\u207a) from the acetic acid react with the hydroxide ions (OH\u207b) from the barium hydroxide to form water (H\u2082O). The barium ions (Ba\u00b2\u207a) combine with the acetate ions (CH\u2083COO\u207b) from the acetic acid to form barium acetate (Ba(CH\u2083COO)\u2082), which is the salt produced in the reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To balance the equation, we start with the barium hydroxide (Ba(OH)\u2082) because it has only one Ba\u00b2\u207a ion, and each acetate ion (CH\u2083COO\u207b) has a negative charge. Two acetic acid molecules are needed to provide the two acetate ions that will balance the barium ion\u2019s charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final balanced equation shows that for every two molecules of acetic acid, one molecule of barium hydroxide reacts, producing one molecule of barium acetate and two molecules of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sum of the coefficients reflects the stoichiometry of the reaction, which ensures that the number of atoms of each element is the same on both sides of the equation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acetic acid reacts with barium hydroxide. What is the sum of the coefficients for the reactants and products? The correct answer and explanation is: The balanced chemical equation for the reaction between acetic acid (CH\u2083COOH) and barium hydroxide (Ba(OH)\u2082) is: 2CH\u2083COOH+Ba(OH)\u2082\u2192Ba(CH\u2083COO)\u2082+2H\u2082O2 \\text{CH\u2083COOH} + \\text{Ba(OH)\u2082} \\rightarrow \\text{Ba(CH\u2083COO)\u2082} + 2 \\text{H\u2082O} To determine the sum of the [&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-270581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270581","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=270581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}