Why Doesn't Magnesium Nitrate React with Sulphuric Acid?

[topsyturvy]

why magnesium nitrate does not react with sulphuric acid?
can somebody help answering? thank you.

 

[3trQN]

salt: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

2HNO3 + MgO → Mg(NO3)2 + H2O

 

[topsyturvy]

er.. i still don't understand why magnesium nitrate does not react with sulphuric acid?
i understand what is salt already. thankyou.

 

[Gokul43201]

why magnesium nitrate does not react with sulphuric acid?
can somebody help answering?

No, we can't, unless you show some original effort first. Please read the posting guidelines for this sub-forum.

 

[topsyturvy]

well, H2SO4 is a strong acid, while NO- is a weak base?

 

[geoffjb]

well, H2SO4 is a strong acid, while NO- is a weak base?

Have you written out the equation? The unit from which this question is drawn (thermodynamics, acids/bases, etc.) might lend you a hint.

 

[3trQN]

erm...i seem to have completely miss-read your question...sorry

 

[geoffjb]

erm...i seem to have completely miss-read your question...sorry

The question was for the OP.

 

[3trQN]

So was my post :)