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    Activity 1.

    1 can be described as – when a magnesium ribbon is burnt in oxygen, it gets converted to


    magnesium oxide. This description of a chemical reaction in a sentence form is quite long. It can be
    written in a shorter form. The simplest way to do this is to write it in the form of a word-equation.
    The word-equation for the above reaction would be Magnesium + Oxygen → Magnesium oxide
    (Reactants) (1.1) (Product) The substances that undergo chemical change in the reaction (1.1),
    magnesium and oxygen, are the reactants. The new substance is magnesium oxide, formed during
    the reaction, as a product. A word-equation shows change of reactants to products through an
    arrow placed between them. The reactants are written on the left-hand side (LHS) with a plus sign
    (+) between them. Similarly, products are written on the right-hand side (RHS) with a plus sign (+)
    between them. The arrowhead points towards the products, and shows the direction of the
    reaction. Is there any other shorter way for representing chemical equations? Chemical equations
    can be made more concise and useful if we use chemical formulae instead of words. A chemical
    equation represents a chemical reaction. If you recall formulae of magnesium, oxygen and
    magnesium oxide, the above word-equation can be written as Mg + O2 → MgO (1.2) Count and
    compare the number of atoms of each element on the LHS and RHS of the arrow. Is the number of
    atoms of each element the same on both the sides? If yes, then the equation is balanced. If not, then
    the equation is unbalanced because the mass is not the same on both sides of the equation. Such a
    chemical equation is a skeletal chemical equation for a reaction. Equation (1.2) is a skeletal chemical
    equation for the burning of magnesium in air. 1.1.2 Balanced Chemical Equations Recall the law of
    conservation of mass that you studied in Class IX; mass can neither be created nor destroyed in a
    chemical reaction. That is, the total mass of the elements present in the products of a chemical
    reaction has to be equal to the total mass of the elements present in the reactants. In other words,
    the number of atoms of each element remains the same, before and after a chemical reaction.
    Hence, we need to balance a skeletal chemical equation. Is the chemical Eq. (1.2) balanced? Let us
    learn about balancing a chemical equation step by step. The word-equation for Activity 1.3 may be
    represented as Zinc + Sulphuric acid → Zinc sulphate + Hydrogen The above word-equation may be
    represented by the following chemical equation Zn + H2 SO4 → ZnSO4 + H2 (1.3)

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