Sulfuryl chloride is used in organic chemistry as a chlorinating agent. At moderately high temperatures it decomposes as follows:

with Kc = 0.045 at 650 K.
a. A sample of 8.25 g of SO2Cl2 is placed in a 1.00-L reaction vessel and heated to 650 K. What are the equilibrium concentrations of all of the species?
b. What fraction of SO2Cl2 has decomposed?
c. If 5 g of chlorine is inserted into the reaction vessel, what qualitative effect would this have on the fraction of SO2Cl2 that has decomposed?

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SO2Cl2(8) SO2(g) CI2(g)