What are the oxidation and reduction equations for when zinc is placed in HCl?
1 Answer
Jul 10, 2017
Zinc is oxidized to
Explanation:
And hydronium ion is REDUCED to dihydrogen gas.........
And we add the equations together to eliminate the electrons.....
And since chloride anion is conceived to be a spectator in this reaction.....
Is mass balanced? Is charge balanced? If the answer is NO, then the reaction cannot be considered to represent reality.