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I_dont_wanna
Oct 12, 2011, 08:13 PM
I don't understand.

taxesforaliens
Oct 12, 2011, 08:28 PM
You are probably not doing the reaction in vacuum

I_dont_wanna
Oct 12, 2011, 09:51 PM
would you include oxygen from the atmosphere in that equation?
and if it's in water, would that be included in the equation?

Unknown008
Oct 13, 2011, 01:24 AM
Hm.. I haven't seen any reaction like this one before, that is where ammonia is oxidised to nitrogen gas from copper chloride... And that HCl is formed, which is supposed to react to ammonia to form ammonium chloride...

But if that indeed takes place, I would place my bet on water, water coming from CuCl2 (aq), because [Cu(NH3)4(H2O)2]^2+ is a complex which is responsible for the deep blue color of copper + ammonia solutions.

I_dont_wanna
Oct 13, 2011, 06:20 AM
But how would you get water from CuCl2?

Unknown008
Oct 13, 2011, 06:49 AM
CuCl2 is aqueous, hence, it's in solution, and when solution is mentioned, water is present :)

I_dont_wanna
Oct 13, 2011, 01:12 PM
How would you incorporate water into the reaction? Would you put it in with the reactants? How would you balance the equation?

Unknown008
Oct 13, 2011, 10:43 PM
You can incorporate it with the reactants [ + H2O (l) ] and balance accordingly.