Why is that elements combine to form compounds ?

50 pts plz what is the physical state of matter of baking soda.

3.) for each of the following compounds, draw the major organic product of reaction with hcl or naoh and circle whether the starting materials and products will be more soluble in organic solvent or water benzoic acid + hcl: benzoic acid + naoh: oh benzoic acid water/organic water organic fluorenone hс: fluorenone + naoh: fluorenone water/organic water/organic веnzocaine + hci: benzocaine + n»oh: h2n benzocaine water/organic water organic o=

Chlorine and water react to form hydrogen chloride and oxygen, like this: 2cl2 (g) + 2h2o (g) → 4hcl (g) + o2 (g) also, a chemist finds that at a certain temperature the equilibrium mixture of chlorine, water, hydrogen chloride, and oxygen has the following composition: compound concentration at equilibrium cl2 0.55m h2o 0.57m hcl 0.53m o2 0.34m calculate the value of the equilibrium constant kc for this reaction. round your answer to 2 significant digits.