Chemical Equations & Reactions Flashcards
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The process by which one or more substances change to produce one or more different substances. Different chemical and physical properties.
Chemical Change
Are used to write a chemical reaction
Chemical Changes
Reactants
Products
Mass and atoms are
Conserved
Physical Change is not a
Chemical Change
Examples of a Physical Change
State, Evaporation, Condensation, Melting & Freezing
Representation of a chemical reaction that uses symbols to show relationship between reactants and products.
Chemical Equation
Relative amounts of reactants and products
Chemical Equation
Just the names of reactants and products, qualitative not quantitative
Word Equation
Indicates quantitative amounts of reactants and products, states of each, temperature, pressure and net energy flow.
The Balanced Checmical Equation
nitrogen reacts with hydrogen to produce ammonia
Example Word Equation
(s)
Solid
(l)
Liquid
(g)
gas
(aq)
Aqueous (dissolved in H2O)
<===>
Reversable Reaction
<===>
Reversable Reaction
Reactions ______ atoms
Conserve
During reactions, # and kinds of atoms are the same, tey are just rearranged (balanced).
Reactions conserve Atoms
_____ for chemical formulas are determined by _____ states and cannot be _______
Subscripts, oxidation, changed
Subscripts for chemical formulas are determined by oxidation states and cannot be changed
Balance Equations
____ and ____ of atoms have to be equal on both sides of equations
and Type
and Type of atoms have to be equal on both sides of equations
Balance Equations
—-> ‘Yield’ sign also means
equal