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What is a balanced chemical equation? Why should chemical equations be balanced?
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A balanced chemical reaction is an equation that has equal numbers of each type of atom on both sides of the arrow.
A chemical equation is a written symbolic representation of a chemical reaction. The reactant chemical(s) are given on the left-hand side and the product chemical(s) on the right-hand side.
The law of conservation of mass states that atoms can neither be created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction, so the number of atoms that are present in the reactants has to balance the number of atoms that are present in the products.
A chemical equation is a written symbolic representation of a chemical reaction. The reactant chemical(s) are given on the left-hand side and the product chemical(s) on the right-hand side.
The law of conservation of mass states that atoms can neither be created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction, so the number of atoms that are present in the reactants has to balance the number of atoms that are present in the products.
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