Balancing Chemical Equations
A study of chemical equations and the fundamental law that matter is neither created nor destroyed.
Key Questions
- Explain the Law of Conservation of Mass in the context of chemical reactions.
- Construct balanced chemical equations to represent chemical changes.
- Predict the coefficients needed to balance a given chemical equation.
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