Open Question: why do we have to balance chemical equations?
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danie Member since:April 25, 2011Total points:95 (Level 1)why do we have to balance chemical equations? does it have anything to do with the law of conservation of mass?Answer Question
by game_b0y... Member since:March 25, 2008Total points:124 (Level 1)Yes. It has almost everything to do with the law of conservation of mass. Mass can be neither created nor destroyed, therefore you can't have more mass on one side than another. So, in order to make this work, you must balance out the equation so that there are exactly the same number of each element on each side of the reaction.
danie Member since:April 25, 2011Total points:95 (Level 1)why do we have to balance chemical equations? does it have anything to do with the law of conservation of mass?Answer Question by game_b0y... Member since:March 25, 2008Total points:124 (Level 1)Yes. It has almost everything to do with the law of conservation of mass. Mass can be neither created nor destroyed, therefore you can't have more mass on one side than another. So, in order to make this work, you must balance out the equation so that there are exactly the same number of each element on each side of the reaction.
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