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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Chemical equation?

Also known as: balanced equation

Definition 13.5 School Chemistry — Grades 1 to 12 · Chapter 13 — Conservation of Mass and Balanced Equations

A chemical equation writes a reaction with formulas: the formulas of the reactants on the left, joined by ++, an arrow, and the formulas of the products on the right. Each formula may carry a number in front of it. The equation is a balanced equation when each kind of atom appears the same number of times on both sides.

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