Chemical reactions conserve MASS and CHARGE absolutely. A given mass of reactants, from all sources, $1*g, 10*g, 1,000,000*g$, gives AT MOST the SAME MASS of products...$1*g, 10*g, 1,000,000*g$.
$Z$, $"the atomic number"$ of magnesium is 12. This means that there are 12 positively charged nuclear particles. This defines the particle as a magnesium atom. To represent the $""^24Mg$...
The balancement of the reaction requires the conservation of mass, each atom of carbon in $C_4H_8$ consumes one $O_2$ molecule, and every two atoms of hydrogen one oxygen atom is...
Consider the combustion of alkanes, methane for a start: $CH_4(g) + 2O_2(g) rarr CO_2(g) + 2H_2O(g)$ The stoichiometric coefficients (from the left the $1$, the $2$, the $1$, the $2$)...
Subscripts tell us how many atoms there are within a compound. The coefficient tells us how many of the compound we have. So, if you multiply 2 by 4,...
$underbrace(2K(s) + 2H_2O(l))_"114.2 g of reactants" rarr underbrace(2KOH(aq) +H_2(g)uarr)_"114.2 g of products"$ , the principle that garbage in equals garbage out, insists that mass is conserved, and the equation necessarily...
So, you know that Lisa must mix either calcoium oxide, $"CaO"$, or phosphorus pentoxide, $"P"_4"O"_10$, with water in order to produce an acid. SIDE NOTE Phosphorus pentoxide is just...
Mass is a measure of the number of particles. Here you have $O$ atoms, and dioxygen, $O_2$, and ozone molecules, $O_3$ but each have the same mass by specification. There...
Here is my reasoning. Let's treat the heat as a product and rewrite the equation as $"Ca"("NO"_3)_2"(aq)" + "CO"_2"(g)" + "2NaOH(aq)" ⇌ "CaCO"_3"(s)" + "2NaNO"_3"(aq)" + "H"_2"O(l) + heat"$...