Wednesday, 22 June 2016

stoichiometry - Can a chemical reaction have two balanced equations?


I was recently studying Xenon compounds and read this reaction:


$$\ce{6XeF4 + 12H2O -> 4Xe + 2XeO3 + 24HF + 3O2}$$


However this reaction can also be written as the following:


$$\ce{4XeF4 + 8H2O → 2Xe + 2XeO3 + 16HF + O2}$$


Now both of these are valid but wouldn't that create problems, like in quantitative analysis or in kinetics of the reaction?




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