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bm717:

What is conserved in every balanced equation?

Shadow:

If you start with the same amount of stuff, you should end with the same amount of stuff.

bm717:

No medal for you ty @Hero

Shadow:

:(

bm717:

Break up with le fridge pls

Bob:

calories

bm717:

@Hero

bm717:

@dude @nuts My 200 is riding on this

Lyss:

Hmm. The quantity of atoms of each element is going to be the same on both sides of the reaction arrow of a balanced equation. The mass is conserved. Is mass what you're looking for? Seems a little easy.

Lyss:

Shadow is right lol

Bob:

no me

Lyss:

CaLoRiEs????

gabethebabe:

Law of Conservation of Matter states matter cannot be created nor destroyed, this idea can be applied to a chemical reaction, no matter what happens during the reaction the same amount of matter will be present before and after the reaction. So although its hard to think of some reactions following this rule (i.e combustion reactions) , just know however dispered or small the products are from the reaction that it has the same amount of MATTER. The second element conserved in balanced chem reactions is the net charge. This might not sound a bell at first bruh, but its pretty simple; take for example synthesis of NaCl. \[Na ^{+} + Cl ^{-}\rightarrow NaCl\] so we have an alkali metal, Na, those always have a positive charge of 1; and we have the crazy-bonding halogen, Cl, with a negative 1 charge. Chlorine really wants another electron to fill its outer shell because it already has 7, so it only needs 1 more to get to 8 (octet rule). That is why Chlorine's charge is -1 it wants to accept one more negative particle; on the other hand, Sodium, has a surplus of valence electrons. It completed its outer shell and had 1 extra election that it wants to GET RID OF so that it becomes stable again. This creates a great situation for both of these ions bc they have both found another element that will give them what they want. So back to the net charge idea. Na has a pos. 1 charge, and Cl has a neg. 1 charge right? whats -1+1?...0 <----thats the net charge. So charge conservation says that, that net charge from the reactants we just found has to match the net charge of the products. Well NaCl has no charge on it, so yes the charge is 0. A third one is the Conservation of Energy. This is literally just the conservation of matter but for energy: eNerGy caN nEiTher bE cReAted nOr deStRoYed. What can happen is the transfer of energy specifically potential->kinetic. Anyway those are ones I learned ab i might be forgetting one or 2.

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