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    This document discusses balancing chemical equations. It explains that the law of conservation of mass states that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form. An unbalanced chemical equation for the dissociation of water into hydrogen and oxygen gas is presented. The rules for balancing chemical equations are that the subscripts of compounds cannot be changed, but coefficients can be added in front of compounds to balance the numbers of atoms on each side of the reaction. The document provides examples of chemical equations to balance using these rules.

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    This document discusses balancing chemical equations. It explains that the law of conservation of mass states that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form. An unbalanced chemical equation for the dissociation of water into hydrogen and oxygen gas is presented. The rules for balancing chemical equations are that the subscripts of compounds cannot be changed, but coefficients can be added in front of compounds to balance the numbers of atoms on each side of the reaction. The document provides examples of chemical equations to balance using these rules.

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    This document discusses balancing chemical equations. It explains that the law of conservation of mass states that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form. An unbalanced chemical equation for the dissociation of water into hydrogen and oxygen gas is presented. The rules for balancing chemical equations are that the subscripts of compounds cannot be changed, but coefficients can be added in front of compounds to balance the numbers of atoms on each side of the reaction. The document provides examples of chemical equations to balance using these rules.

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    BALANCING CHEMICAL REACTIONS

    THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MASS


    Defined: Matter cannot be created or destroyed, only change form.

    What does this mean??

    A + B C

    BALANCING CHEMICAL EQUATIONS


    So…. what if we run an electric current through some water?

    water hydrogen gas + oxygen gas

    Change the word equation in to a chemical equation in the space below

    How many hydrogen and oxygen atoms are there on each side of the equation?? Does this equation
    follow the law of conservation of mass??

    How can we fix this? Can we just add another oxygen to the H2O to balance it?
    + 
    Rules for Balancing Equations…
    1) You can not change any subscripts in a compound formula
    2) You can put a coefficient in front of the compounds to balance the equation

    Try BALANCING the equation for the dissociation of water using these rules…

    TRY THESE! TIPS ‘n TRICKS:

    1. ______ NaOH + _____ HCl  _____ NaCl + _______ H2O 1. If the coefficient is 1,
    then don’t write it.
    2. Be patient. If at first
    you don’t succeed,
    try, try again.
    2. ______ H2 + _____ O2  _______ H2O 3. Do the math! Write
    out the number of
    \ atoms of each
    element on each side
    of the equation.
    3. ______ CH4 + _____ O2  _______ CO2 + _______ H2O 4. Try balancing
    polyatomic ions as a
    group.
    5. Try to balance “free”
    elements last.
    4. ______ KI + _____ Pb(NO3)2  _____ KNO3 + ____PbI2

    5. ______Na + ______S (s)  ________Na2S (s)

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