During the naval battles of the South Pacific in World War II, the U. S. Navy produced smoke screens by spraying titanium tetrachloride into the moist air where it reacted according to the equation: TiCl4 + H2O TiO2 + HCl

a. How many moles of H2O are needed to react with 6.50 moles of TiCl4? (13.0)

b. How many moles of HCl are formed when 8.44 moles of TiCl4 react? (33.8)

Explanation:

The reaction given is;

TiCl4 + H2O --> TiO2 + HCl

The reaction is not balanced, upon balancing it is given as;

TiCl4 + 2H2O → TiO2 + 4HCl  

a. How many moles of H2O are needed to react with 6.50 moles of TiCl4?

From the reaction;

1 mol of TiCl4 requires 2 mol of H2O

6.50 mol of TiCl4 would require x mol of H2O

1 = 2

6.5 = x

x = 6.5 * 2 / 1 = 13.0 mol

b. How many moles of HCl are formed when 8.44 moles of TiCl4 react?

From the equation of the reaction;

1 mol of TiCl4 reacts to form 4 mol of HCl

8.44 mol of TiCl4 reacts to form x mol of HCl

1 = 4

8.44 = x

x = 8.44 * 4 / 1 = 33.76 mol

a. energy is absorbed in the reaction.

if in a given reaction the energy of products is greater than the energy of reactants it means that reaction is endothermic and during the reaction, the energy is absorbed by reactants. in an endothermic reaction, the products have more stored chemical energy than the reactants. and in this reaction the reactants are more stable than products before the compounds with less energy are always more stable.