How to Balance a Chemical Equation EASY

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In this video Josh Kenney explains a simple method to balance chemical equations.
This is the QUICKEST and EASIEST method!
1. Balance the Medals
2. Balance the Nonmetals (except H and O)
3. Balance hydrogen then oxygen

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tell me how i thought this was the most difficult thing to learn in chemistry and i just learned it and understood it in 8 minutes rather than 3 90 minute classes

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My teacher is shit, took me forever to understand this and now that I do I'm surprised how easy it is.

[@inhle1688]

I always forgot the subscript and my eq would be extremely high💀

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@Isabella Eker i still don’t get it, someone help

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Absolutely! You all deserve a reply! Thanks for commenting.🤗

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why is this so satisfying tho. i literally gasped when i realized that all the chemicals were balanced, it's like magic

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Great for terrible zoom chemistry meetings that make no sense

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You chose a somewhat difficult equation for beginner and yet made everything look so easy that I had a "why do I need a video to explain this to me" moment. 10/10, would recommend before exams.

[@TheScienceClassroom]

Thanks! I'm glad this video helped!

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This was really helpful! My teacher taught it completely different and it didn't quite make sense. I'll definitely share this method with my class. Thanks!

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Awesome! I'm glad that this helped you!

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The Science Classroom I did the exact same method but not all of the chemicals were balanced.. What should I do??!???!?

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it would be better if he gave a a question at the end and we tried it and then he can show us the answer like if u agree

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I was gonna make a joke about Sodium, Bromine, Hydrogen and Oxygen but NaHBrO.

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Teacher taught about this all day. Didn't understand anything. This guy taught about it for 9 minutes. I understand it crystal clear. Thank you so much

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I have a great chem teacher but he briefly went over complicated chemical equations, thank you!

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[@crystal4640]

balancing chemical equations makes me wanna give up on life, literally. but thanks for this tutorial it really helps.

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Vathana SAME. when you change one thing but doing so you change a number that was already balanced and you’re like “oh god here we go again”

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You're welcome!

[@massobeauvais9551]

I have to say I was struggling in my Chemistry class a lot. Then when I viewed this video and it got me to completely understand the steps in how I should balance my equations. It also showed me a much simpler way of going about it. So thank you and I definitely recommend watching this!

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I took an honors chemistry class in high school, but to be honest, I hated it back then. I think that had a lot to do with my teacher because he was ready to retire. I'm relearning all the basics of chemistry now because I don't want to be drowning in it in college, and with your help (along with the help of Hank Green's Crash Course Chemistry videos and Sal Khan's Khan Academy), I am beginning to love it. Balancing equations is simply a fun puzzle! It's nowhere near as difficult as it's made out to be, and it's MUCH more fun than people give credit to it!

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this makes it seem so easy.. compared to how my teacher taught it to me

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The Science Classroom: This is the QUICKEST and EASIEST method! Me: 9 minute long video... Good Explanation tho!

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I actually whizzed through that. It seemed like 2 minutes. I was surprised

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That's because of all of the explaining he has to do. Once u get used to it, it won't take 9 mins. Other methods will take yeaRs

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my teacher didnt actually give us steps to learn how to balance the equations. she just told us to look at the subscripts and make them the same on both sides, not a good teacher at all, especially for a private school! this has helped me so much though and now i can do it the correct way with an actual step by step guide! thank you so much, you are truly saving my grade.

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Ok i teach u so When on the right side U have KOH and on the left u have K²SO⁴ So to balance them, out you have to do like this 2KHO But......if u put 2 infront of K, the Hydrogen and Oxygen with have 2 so they will be 2KO²H² so on the left side,you will have 14 Oxygen Atoms

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I'm glad this makes sense now!🤗 There are a lot of methods to balance equations, but these are the rules I always teach in my chemistry class.

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i found out that if you took SO4 and OH as one element its much faster, but dividing them works too

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bro i never learned this in actual class yet somehow i just learned it here wtf

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so i have a test tomorrow

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Thank you soooo much this will get me through my end of year exams! :)

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Me: Using a pen when he says "use a pencil". Anyway, thanks for the video! : )

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Blue Jay And Scooby i have a test on friday and its acids alkali but complex version. And it involves alot of balancing equations. The teachers shouting at everyone because they dont know this despite them learning this last year and i moved schools not that long ago. Im going to fail this one its actually alot to remember and understand 😭

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thank god for this ! I was out for two days and I legit didn’t know how to do it based off of the notes I had, and this seems to make more sense than what he had taught !

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