You Will Need:

1. Log #5 (Update on-line)

2. Pencil, Text Book Periodic Table

4. Colored Pencils

5. Balancing Equations #1 (Pick-up from bookshelf- Please

Staple)

1.Test #4 Retakes this week. Please schedule a time with me.

2.Check your updated grades for accuracy or missing assignments.

Balancing a chemicalBalancing a chemical equations is equations is much like the work of an much like the work of an accountant who has to show accountant who has to show where every penny has come where every penny has come fromfrom and and where it has gone to.where it has gone to.

Vocabulary Word Definition

Inhibitors

CatalystsStarts and/or Speeds Up Chemical Reactions

Stops and/or Slows Down Chemical Reactions

Conservation of Mass

Reactants

Products

Coefficient

Mass can neither be created or destroyed in any chemical reaction.

Word Definition

2 NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + 2 H2O

Conservation of Mass = the same number of atoms of each element on each side of the equation.

Conservation of Mass

Reactants

Products

Coefficient

Mass can neither be created or destroyed in any chemical reaction.

Substances going into the reaction.

Word Definition

Reactants = the substances going into a reaction

2 NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + 2 H2O

Conservation of Mass

Reactants

Products

Coefficient

Mass can neither be created or destroyed in any chemical reaction.

Substances going into the reaction.

Substances produced by the reaction

Word Definition

Products = the substances being produced by the reaction

2 NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + 2 H2O

Conservation of Mass

Reactants

Products

Coefficient

Mass can neither be created or destroyed in any chemical reaction.

Substances going into the reaction.

Substances produced by the reaction

The number in front of the formula indicating how many molecules

Word Definition

Coefficient = The number in front of each formula or element indicating how many molecules

2 NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + 2 H2O

1. Get Yourself an unbalanced equation.

NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + H2O

1. Get Yourself an unbalanced equation.

2. Draw boxes around all the chemical formulas.

NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + H2O

3. Make an element inventory.

Element Before After

Na=Sodium 1 2

O= Oxygen 5 5

H= Hydrogen 3 2

S= Sulfur 1 1

NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + H2O

4. Write the numbers in front of each of the boxes until the inventory for each element is the same both before and after the reaction.

NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + H2O

Element Before After

Sodium 1 2

Oxygen 5 5

Hydrogen 3 2

Sulfur 1 1

4. Write the numbers in front of each of the boxes until the inventory for each element is the same both before and after the reaction.

NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + H2O

Element Before After

Na 1 2

O 5 5

H 3 2

S 1 1

2

2

6

4

4. Write the numbers in front of each of the boxes until the inventory for each element is the same both before and after the reaction.

NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + H2O

Element Before After

Na 2 2

O 6 5

H 4 2

S 1 1

2

4. Write the numbers in front of each of the boxes until the inventory for each element is the same both before and after the reaction.

NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + H2O

Element Before After

Na 2 2

O 6 5

H 4 2

S 1 1

2 2

6

4

•You have 5 problems to balance.

•Show Your Final Inventory Chart on the Back.

•Do TWO and get them checked before you complete the page.

HOMEWORK:

Complete “Balancing Equations #1””- Due Tomorrow Part 1