Describing Chemical Reactions

• What are chemical equations used for?

  to describe chemical reactions
• what are the two types of equations?

  word equations and chemical equations
• what are the parts of the equations?

  reactants (used up during the reaction) and products (produced from the reaction)
• word equations


  when the names of the reactants and products are fully written out and separated by an arrow between.

  reactant1 + reactant2 --> product1 + product2
• chemical equations

  chemical formula of the reactants and products as well as the state:

  solid (s), liquid (l), gaseous (g), or aqueous (aq)