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The law of conservation of mass states that mass is neither created nor distort in a certain process.
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And so in a chemical reaction, we always have the chemical equation representing the chemical reaction always balanced.
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So to balance a chemical reaction or chemical equation, we need to make sure that both sides of the equation contain the same number of each element.
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So for this problem, we're going to balance the chemical reaction involved between c.
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6h14 and oxygen gas to form carbon dioxide and water.
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So to balance it, we're gonna put coefficients, which are number written in front of the formulas.
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So first, let's make an inventory of the number of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen on the two sides of the equation.
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On the left side, we count six carbon and one on the right side.
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For hydrogen, we have 14 on the left side and two on the right side.
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And for oxygen, we have two on the, are left side and then three on the right side.
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So let's balance first carbon by putting 6 in front of co2.
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That will make the number of carbon that are equal to 6...