If you start with 5.5 grams of lithium chloride and add that to calcium hydroxide, how many grams of calcium chloride will be produced?

Answer 1

No calcium chloride will be produced. First of all, if both reactants are in solid form, there can be no reaction. Secondly, even if you have aqueous solutions of both LiCl and Ca(OH)₂, there will be no reaction because all reactants and products are soluble and fully dissociated in solution. So, you would have the following situation:

2LiCl(aq) + Ca(OH)₂(aq) ==> CaCl₂(aq) + 2LiOH(aq), but looking at the ionic equation you have...

2Li⁺(aq) + 2Cl^-(aq) + Ca²⁺(aq) + 2OH^-(aq) ==> Ca²⁺(aq) + 2Cl^-(aq) + 2Li⁺(aq) + 2OH^-(aq)

ALL ARE SPECTATOR IONS AND THERE IS NO REACTION