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How to Balance Iron + Water → Iron (II) oxide + Hydrogen gas |
How to Balance: Fe + H2O → FeO + H2
Type of Chemical Reaction: This is a single displacement reaction.
Word Equation: Iron + Water → Iron (II) oxide + Hydrogen gas
| Balancing Strategies: This reaction is a single displacement reaction, where the iron and the hydrogen change places.
Remember you can only change the coefficients in front of a chemical compounds when balancing equations. The subscripts, those small numbers after element symbols, cannot be changed. For a complete explanation, watch:
About Balancing Chemical EquationsWhen 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).
 Never change the subscripts (the small numbers after elements).
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