[laula]

I am having trouble balancing this reaction. Any ideas... or can anyone figure it out? :confused:

KIO3 + NaHSO3 --> I2 + Na2SO4 + H2SO4 + K2SO4 + H20




I have actually never been taught the half reaction way to balance... but that's awesome, thank you so much!

[rudi_in]

First of all, thank you for posting your question to the Ask Me Help Desk!
Assuming there are no typos, here is what I come up with.

4 KIO3 + 10 NaHSO3 --> 2 I2 + 5 Na2SO4 + 3 H2SO4 + 2 K2SO4 + 2 H2O

This was balanced using the half-reaction method.
I hope this was helpful to you.