A student made 50g of sodium acetate , 20g of water and 15g of carbon dioxide by reacting baking soda with vinegar. How many total grams of baking soda and vinegar did the student react?
Reacting of 5 cm3 of baking soda with 100 cm3 of vinegar should produce 0.083 moles of CO2 gas, 0.083 moles of sodium acetate, and leave 0.01 moles of sodium bicarbonate unreacted.
