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"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30) 01/18/2018 at 20:36 • Filed to: None

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Can you help me balance this equation

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 01/18/2018 at 20:41

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Iron + Hydrosulfoxide = Balls of Steel.

E90M3 > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 01/18/2018 at 20:41

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That seemed really easy, unless I’m missing something really obvious. It has been almost a decade since I’ve taken chem.

Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner > E90M3 01/18/2018 at 20:43

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Yeah I’m not the brightest person when it comes to chem. Everytime I solved it, I came out with an impossible equation. But you solved it

E90M3 > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 01/18/2018 at 20:50

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I mean, I’ve got a chemical engineering degree, so I might have a bit of an advantage.

Bourbon&JellyBeans > E90M3 01/18/2018 at 21:04

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As someone without a shred of an understanding of chemistry, this looks like absolute gibberish to me. Like you could have written dog, brick, ice cube, and peanut butter instead of numbers and it would have meant just as much to me.

If I am honest, if I didn’t have a friend passing me answers in high school chemistry class I would have flunked.

Edit: I recognize that Fe is Iron. And SO is...Sulfur oxide? Oxate? Oxen? I don’t know.

ttyymmnn > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 01/18/2018 at 21:05

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No. That’s why I dropped chemistry in college and never took it again. Good luck.

Textured Soy Protein > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 01/18/2018 at 21:43

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Fuck if I know, this is why I majored in English. If it’s any consolation, chemistry is easily avoidable in adult life.

Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner > Textured Soy Protein 01/18/2018 at 21:47

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This is why I’m not majoring in this mess

WilliamsSW > E90M3 01/18/2018 at 21:54

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Seems right to me

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > E90M3 01/18/2018 at 21:54

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That looks about right to me.

For Sweden > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 01/18/2018 at 22:12

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Convert the symbols for simplicity

Fe = A

H = B

S = C

O = D

Then balance

vA + w(2B + C + 4D) = x[2A + 3(C + 4D)] + y(2B)

vA +   2wB + wC + 4wD = 2xA + 3xC + 12xD + 2yB

Subtract the right side from the left, then pull out the capital letters (elements)

A(v - 2x) + B(2w - 2y) + C(w - 3x) + D(4w - 12x) = 0

This one equation has four unknowns ( v, w, x, y ), so there isn’t just one answer. However, there is an answer with the smallest whole numbers.

Looking at the parenthetical in the above equation, we see the terms 2x, 6x, and 12x . These relatively high multipliers of x suggest (but don’t prove) that x is the smallest whole number. Start by setting x = 1 and rewrite the equation.

A(v - 2) + B(2w - 2y) + C(w - 3) + D(4w - 12) = 0

A solution to the above equation is v = 2, w = 3, and y = 3 . We can use these plus x = 1 in the second-from-top equation to see if this answer set actually works.

2A + 6 B + 3C + 12D = 2A + 3C + 12D + 6B  

We see the solution works, and can write the chemical equation.

And that is the arduous method a aerospace/mechanical engineer uses to balance a chemical equation.

promoted by the color red > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 01/18/2018 at 22:15

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Here’s my recommendation for tackling these problems: start small and tackle one thing at a time.

At the very least you’re going to need 2 FE to balance out the existing FE2 on the right-hand-side.

Then start tackling the So4 on the right. There’s three, meaning 3S and 12O to balance out. What’s the least you can do to the left to get the same #s of S and O? 3.

Hmm, so that leaves you with 6H on the left. To achieve balance on the right, put a three up in that biz so you get 6H total.

Grindintosecond > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 01/18/2018 at 22:17

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The answer is .. Miata.

Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner > For Sweden 01/18/2018 at 22:20

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E90M3 simplified it. That’s just.... nope

BahamaTodd > Bourbon&JellyBeans 01/18/2018 at 22:57

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Mix Iron metal and Sulfuric acid and you get Iron Sulfate and Hydrogen