Question

What is meant by the skeletal chemical equation?

Answer 1

Chemical equation

• “A chemical equation represents a chemical reaction”.
• A chemical equation is the representation of a chemical reaction using formulae and symbols of the substances.

Skeletal chemical equation

• Skeletal equations are equations with simply the chemical formulas of the products and reactants, no mention of state, and no atom balancing on either side of the equation.
• An example of a skeletal chemical equation is given below:-

$\mathrm{Mg}+{\mathrm{O}}_2\to \mathrm{MgO}$