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BALANCING CHEMICAL EQUATIONS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Subscript | small number written to the right of an element; tells you how many atoms of that element you have. Chemical reaction |
| Law of conservation of matter | says that matter cannot be created or destroyed. |
| Reactants | substances used up in a chemical reaction. |
| Products | new substances made in a chemical reaction. |
| Coefficient | large number placed before a molecule in a chemical reaction; this number “multiplies each element in that formula” |
| Chemical formula | identifies each element by its chemical symbol and indicates the number of atoms of each element found in each discrete molecule of that compound. |
| Subscript | small number written to the right and below the chemical symbol if a molecule contains more than one atom of a particular element. |
| Combustion | burning; a complex sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat or both heat and light. |
| Balanced equation | the law of conservation of matter demands that we have the same numbers of each element’s atoms on both sides of the equation. |