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equation, word

In chemistry, method of indicating the reactants and products of a chemical reaction by using the names of the chemicals involved. The names of the reactants are on the left-hand side and the names of the products on the right-hand side. For example,

magnesium + oxygen → magnesium oxide

This method is an alternative to using symbols in a chemical equation.



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