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c.drury
Dec 3, 2009, 11:43 AM
What does sodium bromide and potassium chloride yield?

Perito
Dec 3, 2009, 01:53 PM
a mixture of sodium, potassium, bromide, and chloride ions.

NaBr \, \rightleftharpoons \, Na^+ + Br^-

KCl \, \rightleftharpoons \, K^+ + Cl^-

Na^+ + Cl^- \, \rightleftharpoons \, NaCl

K^+ + Br^- \, \rightleftharpoons \, KBr



If you dissolved all of this in water, and let it dry out, you would have a mixture of all four possible salts:

KCl, \,\, NaCl, \,\, KBr, \,\, NaBr