{"id":28920,"date":"2025-06-20T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/?p=28920"},"modified":"2025-06-20T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:21:15","slug":"hydrochloric-acid-dissolves-solid-aluminum-hydroxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/hydrochloric-acid-dissolves-solid-aluminum-hydroxide\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrochloric acid dissolves solid aluminum hydroxide."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Hydrochloric acid dissolves solid aluminum hydroxide. What is the net ionic equation of this reaction? Select the correct answer below: 3 HCI + Al(OH)3 ? 3 H2O + AICI3 3 H+(aq) + 3 Cl?(aq) + Al(OH)3(s) ? 3 H2O(l) + Al\u00b3?(aq) + 3 Cl?(aq) 3 H+(aq) + Al(OH)3(s) ? 3 H2O(l) + Al\u00b3?(aq) 3 H+(aq) + 3 Cl?(aq) + Al(OH)3(s) ? 3 H2O(l) + Al\u00b3?(aq)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Correct Answer:<\/strong><br><strong>3 H\u207a(aq) + Al(OH)\u2083(s) \u2192 3 H\u2082O(l) + Al\u00b3\u207a(aq)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><br>When hydrochloric acid (HCl) reacts with aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH)\u2083), a neutralization reaction occurs. This type of reaction involves the combination of hydrogen ions (H\u207a) from the acid with hydroxide ions (OH\u207b) from the base to produce water (H\u2082O). In addition to water, a salt \u2014 in this case, aluminum chloride (AlCl\u2083) \u2014 is formed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand the <strong>net ionic equation<\/strong>, it is important to remove spectator ions. Spectator ions are those that do not participate directly in the chemical transformation but appear unchanged on both sides of the complete ionic equation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, write the full molecular equation:<br><strong>Al(OH)\u2083(s) + 3 HCl(aq) \u2192 AlCl\u2083(aq) + 3 H\u2082O(l)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, break all the soluble strong electrolytes (like HCl and AlCl\u2083) into their respective ions:<br><strong>Al(OH)\u2083(s) + 3 H\u207a(aq) + 3 Cl\u207b(aq) \u2192 Al\u00b3\u207a(aq) + 3 Cl\u207b(aq) + 3 H\u2082O(l)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this equation, the chloride ions (Cl\u207b) appear on both sides without change. They are spectator ions and can be eliminated from the net ionic equation. The net ionic equation focuses only on the species that undergo a chemical change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Net Ionic Equation:<\/strong><br><strong>3 H\u207a(aq) + Al(OH)\u2083(s) \u2192 3 H\u2082O(l) + Al\u00b3\u207a(aq)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This equation clearly shows the neutralization of hydroxide ions by hydrogen ions to form water, and the dissolution of aluminum hydroxide into aluminum ions in solution. It emphasizes the acid-base nature of the reaction, with H\u207a ions neutralizing the OH\u207b groups in Al(OH)\u2083.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner8-274.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner8-274.jpeg 852w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner8-274-250x300.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner8-274-768x923.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrochloric acid dissolves solid aluminum hydroxide. What is the net ionic equation of this reaction? Select the correct answer below: 3 HCI + Al(OH)3 ? 3 H2O + AICI3 3 H+(aq) + 3 Cl?(aq) + Al(OH)3(s) ? 3 H2O(l) + Al\u00b3?(aq) + 3 Cl?(aq) 3 H+(aq) + Al(OH)3(s) ? 3 H2O(l) + Al\u00b3?(aq) 3 H+(aq) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28924,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28920\/revisions\/28924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}