Question

What is meant by skeletal type of chemical equation? What does it represents? Using the equation for electrolytic decomposition of water differentiate between a skeletal chemical equation and a balanced equation?

Answer 1

Answer: Skeletal equations are defined as the equations in which formula are used to indicate the chemicals that are involved in a chemical reaction.

It represents a unbalanced chemical reaction.

$H_2O\rightarrow H_2+O_2$   : Skeletal

$2H_2O\rightarrow 2H_2+O_2$  : Balanced

Explanation: Skeletal equation only represents the chemical formulas and does not follow the law of conservation of mass.

Balanced chemical equation represents the chemical formulas and follow the law of conservation of mass which states that the atoms on the reactant and product side are same.

Decomposition is a reaction in which a single reactant decomposes to give two or more than two products on absorption of energy.

Answer 2

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