still need help!!!!!!!!

[hi-me-lol!]

how does sodioum sulfanate react w/lead and vinegar

[jamescjb]

Hi hi-me-lol!,

sodioum sulfanate

I'm justing wondering if you mean "sodium sulfonate" or "sodium sulfate".
It will help me to understand your reaction, thank you.

[hi-me-lol!]

Yeah I think i just spelt it wrong it smelt lke rotten eggs.yuck!!!

[davidcastagna]

I'm not 100% on my chemestry. But I'll take an educated guess at it.

If you meant "sulfonate" then I think you misspelled "sulfonate", you should double check. I assumed you wanted to know about "sodium sulfonate".

I suggest researching "sulfonates" and "sodium sulfonate" to get a better idea of what the chemical (chemical family) is used for. I did that and got a short sentence on a website (way to little to be of any use and besides I summarize it here anyway). From what I find, Sodium Sulfonate is a chemical that helps the formation of a Base. I would then guess that this helps in the lead detection process somehow via a standard Base/Acid reaction.

From basic chemistry a Base (for example a hydroxide compound like Sodium Hydroxide: NaOH) will react with an Acid (for example like Hydrochloric Acid: HCl) to produce a Salt (in this case NaCl) and Water (H20).

I hope that helps. I'm sorry I cannot be more use to you.

Maybe another expert will see this and have more to add.

[davidcastagna]

If you meant "Sodium Sulfate" then disregard my post please.

[davidcastagna]

You might also look at the "Descriptive Chemistry" part of this Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead

[hi-me-lol!]

Sodium sulfonate

[hi-me-lol!]

Thanks David but i still need to know, how does vinegar extract the lead from the soil?

[deleted-71447]

Hi,
Lead and many other metals are more soluble in acidic solutions (e.g. vinegar) than in neutral solutions. For example,
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1204742
"As expected, solubility of added Pb, Zn, and Cu increased with a decrease in pH. "