Answer the following questions.
1. What do you mean by a chemical equation? What information is conveyed by it and what are it's important limitations?
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A chemical equation is the symbolic representation of a chemical reaction in the form of symbols and formulae, wherein the reactant entities are given on the left-hand side and the product entities on the right-hand side. ... The first chemical equation was diagrammed by Jean Beguin in 1615.
Chemical equation gives information about the changes (State, chemical composition, heat energy) occurred in a chemical reaction. In order to write the chemical equation it is need to know the formulae of the elements or compounds which are involved in the chemical reaction.
A chemical equation has its own limitations. They do not provide information about: The physical state of reactants and products Hence, the symbols 's' for solid, 'l' for liquid, 'g' for gas and 'vap' for vapour are added. Conditions such as temperature, pressure and catalyst affecting the reaction.