(a) Write a chemical equation that describes the attack of acid rain on limestone, CaCO₃.

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Hello everyone today, we are being given the falling problem right? The balanced chemical equation showing the formation of acquis nitric acid, a component of acid rain from gaseous nitrogen dioxide gasses, oxygen and liquid water. Note this is this is a simplified form of the reaction. So first we want to write out our reaction and so we formed this nitric acid from our gaseous nitrogen dioxide which will be the following. That'll be the gaseous form. We also found it from gaseous oxygen And liquid water, which is H 20. We'll draw our reaction arrow to show it forming our nitric acid, which will be a quiz of course. And thus we must balance it. So first we need to count how many of each element we have on both sides. So nitrogen on the left, we have one on the right we have one for oxygen's on the left we have two from nitrogen dioxide, two from oxygen and one from water, meaning we have a total of five on the left and we have three on the right. And for hydrogen we have two on the left and one on the right. So the easiest thing to balance out here first is going to be our hydrogen. So they go from 1-2 hydrogen. We need to multiply our product side by two. And so that's gonna give us this following equation here, we're gonna have a two there and notice that when we changed the number of hydrogen, we also changed the number of nitrogen and oxygen. So on the right we went from one nitrogen to two nitrogen and we also went from three oxygen's to now six oxygen's. And so the next thing that we should try to Balance out is going to be our nitrogen. So to go from 1-2, we're going to multiply our nitrogen on the left by two, that's gonna give us this equation here. So while we change the number of nitrogen, we also change the number of oxygen's. So for oxygen's we now have four for nitrogen dioxide plus we have our two and then we have our one from our water. So now we have seven. So this looks a little strange. So what we need to do now is we need to balance out the oxygen's and so how can we do that? Well, there's several things that we could do. The easiest thing is to multiply By two. So we're gonna multiply everything here by two or 2/1. So if you multiply both sides by two, excluding the oxygen's, we're going to get four of our nitrogen dioxide plus our standard oxygen gas, then we're gonna have to waters we're gonna have our four nitric acid Aquarius molecules. And so now we can calculate the total number on each side. So on the left for nitrogen we have four on the right, we have four as well oxygen's we have our eight plus R two which is 10 plus R two, which is 12 On the right, we have our three times four. So we have 12 oxygen molecules, hydrogen is on the right. On the left will be four, and on the right there will also be four. So this is going to be our complete balanced equation. And with that we have solved the problem overall, I hope this helped, and until next time.

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