What is chemical equation? Provide examples
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☀️A chemical equation is the symbolic representation of a chemical reaction.The equation is also called a word equation.
❏ The symbols of the reactants and products are always the same.
❏ A chemical equation shows the changes of reactants to the product by an arrow (→) placed between them.
❏ On the LHS of an arrow, reactants are written and on the RHS products are written in the chemical equation.
❏ The chemical equation can be made more informative by applying symbols :
- Solid - (s)
- Liquid - (l)
- Gases - (g)
- Aqueous solution - (aq)
☀️Reactants which produce gas in reaction - (↑)
☀️Reactants which produce solid in reaction - (↓)
A balanced chemical equation is that in which the total number of atoms of each element is equal on both side of the equation.For Examples :-
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