If you were to mass the reactants before the reaction and then mass the products after the reaction, what would you expect to find? Why? How is this related to balancing your equations?

Explanation:

What would you expect to find?

- The masses of the reactants would be equal to the masses of the product.

Why?

- This is due to the law of conservation of matter which states that matter is neither created nor destroyed in an isolated system but converted from one form to the other.

How is this related to balancing your equations?

- This is why during balancing of equations, we must ensure that the number of atoms in the reactant side must be equal to the number of atoms in the product side.