Suppose a company makes porous calcium phosphate scaffolds to replace shattered bone. The scaffold is sintered from powders acquired by adding sodium phosphate to calcium chloride, resultant in a precipitation reaction according to the subsequent balanced chemical equation
3 CaCl2(aq) + 2 Na3PO4(aq) ? Ca3(PO4)2(s) + 6 NaCl(aq)
(a) Find out the limiting reactant, when 500.1mL of a 1.50 M Na3PO4 solution is added to a solution that contains 84.0 g of CaCl2. Cl 35.45 g/mol, Ca: 40.08 g/mol, P: 30.97 g/mol, O: 16.00 g/mol, Na: 22.99g/mol)
(b) Compute the theoretical yield (by mass) of Ca3(PO4)2.
(c) Compute the percentage yield (by mass) for the reaction if 64.3 g of Ca3(PO4)2 is actually obtained.