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What is a balanced chemical equation? Why should chemical equa
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Chapter 1: Chemical Reactions and Equations

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Translate the following statements into chemical equations and then balance them:

(a) Hydrogen gas combines with nitrogen to form ammonia.
(b) Hydrogen sulphide gas burns in air to give water and sulphur dioxide.
(c) Barium chloride reacts with aluium sulphate to give aluium chloride and a precipitate of barium sulphate.
(d) Potassium metal reacts with water to give potassium hydroxide and hydrogen gas.
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A balanced chemical reaction is an equation that has equal numbers of each type of atom on both sides of the arrow. 

A chemical equation is a written symbolic representation of a chemical reaction. The reactant chemical(s) are given on the left-hand side and the product chemical(s) on the right-hand side. 

The law of conservation of mass states that atoms can neither be created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction, so the number of atoms that are present in the reactants has to balance the number of atoms that are present in the products.
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