Chapter 4, Problem 126IAE

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

Amount of iron (II) sulfate heptahydrate must be calculated while processing 100 kg of

ilmenite.

Concept introduction:

There is one iron atom in one molecule of ilmenite.

One mole of ilmenite produces one mole of iron (II) sulfate heptahydrate.

${\text{FeTiO}}_{\text{3}}{\text{(s)+H}}_{\text{2}}{\text{SO}}_{\text{4}}{\text{(l)+7H}}_{\text{2}}\text{O(l)}\to {\text{FeSO}}_{\text{4}}{\text{.7H}}_{\text{2}}{\text{O+H}}_{\text{2}}{\text{TiO}}_{\text{3}}$