Balancing Ca + Na2 → Ca3Na2 equation

[Sorry!]

Homework Statement

Ok I am absolutely terrible at chemistry and a friend asked me to help her with this and she has no one else so i figured I would come here.

Write the word equation and balanced equation:

Ca_(s) + Na_2(g) -> Ca₃Na_2(s)

The Attempt at a Solution

Would the word equation just be Calcium + Sodium -> Tricalcium disodium? what about the balanced equation?

6Ca + 2Na₂ -> Ca₃Na_2(s)

I have a feeling I'm doing this completely wrong lol.

 

[cepheid]

I'm not going to touch the "word equation." I wonder whether the compound is really called Tricalcium disodium...sounds funny.

You have 6 calcium atoms on the left hand side and only 3 on the right hand side. How is that balanced?

 

[Bohrok]

Perhaps something like "n moles of solid calcium plus ... yields ... " ?

 

[Borek]

You sure it is not nitrogen instead of sodium?

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[Sorry!]

You sure it is not nitrogen instead of sodium?

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Yeah it was nitrogen sorry.

Ca + O₂ > CaO

would it be balanced by
2ca + O₂ > 2CaO??

 

[Bohrok]

That balances it.