Balancing Chemical Equations With Polyatomic Ions and Fractions | Study Chemistry With Us

Learn how to balance any type of chemical equation thrown your way! I'll teach you helpful tricks to balance chemical equations with polyatomic ions and we will go over how to balance chemical equations using fractions. Study Chemistry along with us, we will go over a lot of questions you don't realize you have on this topic.
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Breaking up the equation like that is brilliant.

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[@sarahallen1054]

Is there a place I can find NH4OH+H3PO4 -> (NH4)3PO4+H20 worked out without doing the polyatomic ion trick? I'd like to see just how many more steps there are and just the difference between doing it both ways!

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how did you get the 13 at the end?

[@montgomerymontgomery570]

When doing the fraction trick, why does the denominator have to be the same number as the subscript? What is that doing?

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[@fratortv2014]

i dont know if anyone can respond, but why do we put the hydrogens and oxygens together (OH) instead of solving for them individually?

[@hiraeth2498]

how about if there are two fractions involved? or there will never be an instances of two fractions?

[@melissamaribel]

Never seen 2 fractions in one problem

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[@Vero1229]

please help me balance C3H5N3O9 --> CO2 + N2 + H2O + O2. I am having a mental breakdown.

[@numairsyed8437]

Im confused, if you got 13 from the last problem on the reactant side. Then wouldn't that make it 26, which wouldn't balance out with the 13 on the right.

[@numairsyed8437]

Like O2 is on the left side so wouldn't 13 multiply with it.

[@mark0032]

You're going to run into problems using the polyatomic method balancing for hydroxyl combustion reactions. (C2H5OH+02-->CO2+HOH) At least i did, unless I'm just doing something wrong.

[@melissamaribel]

Agreed, don’t use this for any combustion reactions.

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Mis apart from this I have to ask you a question that how to find charges of polyatomic ions And MI's please please reply Me A beg from this boy And another thing stay home and stay safe😷😷

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You have to memorize those charges, I show that in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJrNk2mLgtuNq6c

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[@christybui2480]

would CH count as a polyatomic ion? I thought balancing equations clicked for me and I ran into a problem and now I'm confused again...

[@christybui2480]

so my equation is CH3NH2 + H20 = CH4 + CO2 + NH3.. would I write out C, NH, H, O and find the numbers for these?

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I have the answer of the balanced equation but I have no idea how to get there :( I've been working on it for 20 minutes now

[@melissamaribel]

CH and NH are not polyatomic ions. You would need to separate every element out here. I recommend reviewing what polyatomic ions are: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoHJfXeafsuCjKM

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what stops me just putting 5.5 in front of the reaction ''O2'' @ 5:03 and get it over with ? the equation is balanced , isn't it ?

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An easier method is just to assume coefficients and make equations to solve them .

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