30.5 g of sodium metal reacts with a solution of excess lithium bromide. How many grams of lithium metal are produced?
1 Answer
Dec 1, 2015
Alkali metals can act as reducing agents. However, sodium metal is unlikely to reduce a lithium salt to lithium metal.
Explanation:
The free energies of formation of the alkali metal salts would be very similar. This reaction is unfeasible.
