Question

Fill in the blank spaces by choosing the correct words from the given list.

List: products,yield,balanced,left,formulae

2. The reactants are always written on the ____ hand side of a chemical equation.

Answer 1

• A symbolic representation of the changes which occur in a chemical reaction, expressed in terms of the formulae of the molecules involved, is called a chemical equation.
• In general, we write the chemical equation: Reactant → Product
• The reactant is written on the left-hand side of the arrow, while the product is written on the right-hand side of the arrow.

Therefore, the reactants are always written on the left hand side of a chemical equation.ore,