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How to Balance Potassium nitrate + Sulfuric acid → Potassium hydrogen sulfate + Nitric acid

How to Balance: KNO3 + H2SO4 → KHSO4 + HNO3

Type of Chemical Reaction: This is a double replacement reaction.

Word Equation: Potassium nitrate + Sulfuric acid → Potassium hydrogen sulfate + Nitric acid

Balancing Strategies: This equation represents one way to make nitric acid by using Potassium nitrate and Sulfuric acid.

It is easiest to consider the polyatomic ions (NO3 and SO4) to be one item when balancing this 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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