Question

What is meant by skeltal type chemical equation? What does it represent ? Using thee equation for elecrolytic decompostion of water and also differentiate between skeltal chemical eqaution and a balanced chemical equation?

Answer 1

Skeleton Equations are the equations in which there is only chemical formula of reactants and products but no state mentioned and no balancing of atoms on either side of Equation done.

For example: Mg + O2 → MgO, it’s a skeleton equation.

Here, the only thing mentioned is the chemical formula of reactant.
chemical equation represent chemical reaction in the symbolic form.

H2O(electolysis)---------H2 + O2is a skeletal chemical equation

2H2O(electrolysis)----------- 2H2 +O2 is balanced chemical equation