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How to Balance Potassium hydroxide + Carbon dioxide → Potassium bicarbonate

How to Balance: KOH + CO2 → KHCO3

Type of Chemical Reaction: This is a combination reaction.

Word Equation: Potassium hydroxide + Carbon dioxide → Potassium bicarbonate

Balancing Strategies: In this combination (also called synthesis reaction) we have KOH and CO2 combining to form KHCO3.

Be sure to count all of the oxygen atoms on the reactants side of the equation.
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About Balancing Chemical Equations

When balancing chemical equations our goal is to have the same number of each type of atom on both sides of the equation.

Only change the coefficients (these are the numbers in front substances).
Coefficients are the numbers in front of the molecule.
Never change the subscripts (the small numbers after elements).
Coefficients are the numbers in front of the molecule.

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