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OpenStudy (anonymous):

why is important to balance a chemical reaction

OpenStudy (aaronq):

because in a chemical reaction mass in conserved, by balancing the equation you are accounting for all the atoms during the rearrangement. Also, balancing gives you the proportions in which they react which is useful to know when doing stoichiometric calculations.

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