Introduction to General, Organic and Biochemistry
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Author: Frederick A. Bettelheim, William H. Brown, Mary K. Campbell, Shawn O. Farrell, Omar Torres
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4-59 Chlorine dioxide, ClO2, is used for bleaching paper. It is also the gas used to kill the anthrax spores that contaminated the Hart Senate Office Building in the fall of 2001. Chlorine dioxide is prepared by treating sodium chlorite with chlorine gas.
(a) Balance the equation for the preparation of chlorine dioxide.
(b) Calculate the weight of chlorine dioxide that can be prepared from 5.50 kg of sodium chlorite.
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