The process of manufacturing sulfuric acid begins with the burning of sulfur. what mass of sulfur would have to be burned in order to produce 1.00 kg of h2so4 ? assume that all of the sulfur ends up in the sulfuric acid.

about 327 g of sulfur

Explanation:

Reaction equations.

2S + 2O2 = 2SO2

2SO2 + O2 = 2SO3

2SO3 + 2H2O = 2H2SO4

1.00 kg H2SO4 (1000 g H2SO4 / 1kg H2SO4) x (1 mole H2SO4 / 98.079 g H2SO4) x

(1 mole S / 1 mole H2SO4) x (32.065 g S / 1 mole S)

= 326.93 g S needed to be burned to produce 1.00 kg of H2SO4

it is to be noted that an alpha particle is an helium nucleus. so it contains 2 protons 2 neutrons and has a mass number of 4. when alpha decay particles are ejected from the nucleus it gets transformed into an atom which has atomic number less than 2 and a mass number less than 4.

an equation that could represent alpha decay is radium 226 decay of alpha particle forms radon 222.

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