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So in this video we're going to work through question 58 from chapter 20, which says trisodium phosphate or tsp is an effective grease remover.
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Like many cleaners, tsp acts at the base in water.
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Write a balanced eclation to account for this basic behavior.
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So we have trisodium phosphate.
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The trisodium tells us we have an a3 and then the phosphate that tells us we have p .o4 and we know that we're reacting with water.
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And we're reacting with water.
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When we react with water, we're acting as a base.
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So that means we're going to remove a proton from water, which will form the hydroxide ion.
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So the hydroxide ion can form a salt, an ionic compound with the sodium ions.
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And so we have n -a -o -h.
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And then what happens to our phosphate ion? our phosphate ion forms a hydride.
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So it forms phosphoric acid, h3po4...