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what is the method of balancing chemical equation |
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Answer» 1.You will need: coloured balls (or marbles), prestik, a sheet of paper and coloured pens.We will try to balance the following equation: Take one ball of one colour. This represents a molecule of . Take two balls of another colour and stick them together. This represents a molecule of . Place these molecules on your left. Now take two balls of the first colour and three balls of the second colour to form . Place this compound on your right. On a piece of paper draw coloured circles to represent the balls. Draw a line down the centre of the paper to represent the molecules on the left and on the right.Count the number of balls on the left and the number on the right. Do you have the same number of each colour on both sides? If not, the equation is not balanced. How many balls of each colour will you have to add to each side to make the number of balls the same? How would you add these balls?You should find that you need four balls of the first colour for and three pairs of balls of the second colour (i.e. six balls in total) for on the left side. On the right side you should find that you need clusters of balls for . We say that the balanced equation is: U have to make all the components on reactant side and product side by adding the prefix |
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