Balance the reaction for magnesium reacting with dioxygen to form magnesium oxide?
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Explanation:
All chemical processes CONSERVE MASS and CONSERVE CHARGE. And representation of chemical reactions by means of equation musts reflect this so-called stoichiometry .
Here we used a half-integral coefficient....as I am perfectly free to do. That is
In both instances, mass and charge are balanced, as they absolutely must be if we purport to represent chemical change. When we use bimolecules such as
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