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Aluminum oxide is formed from the reaction of metallic aluminum with oxygen gas. How many moles of Aluminum are needed to form 3.4 moles of Aluminum oxide?
I don't necessarily need help solving the problem itself (I want to try to do it on my own) but I don't understand how to set the equation up. Aluminum oxide? --> AlO? Metallic aluminum? --> Al? Oxygen gas? --> O?
Al + O --> AlO ?
That seems too easy...and wrong...
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I don't necessarily need help solving the problem itself (I want to try to do it on my own) but I don't understand how to set the equation up. Aluminum oxide? --> AlO? Metallic aluminum? --> Al? Oxygen gas? --> O?
Al + O --> AlO ?
That seems too easy...and wrong...