How Do You Balance Redox Reactions?
One of the hardest topics in high school chemistry is how to balance redox reactions, formally oxidation reduction reactions. The procedure to balance these types of reactions is simple if you can follow a few basic steps. A good knowledge of proceeding concepts and principles taught in the course is essential to be able to handle these types of problems. Identify the atoms in the reaction that are changing oxidation state. This can be performed by calculating the charge on each atom in the equation. By comparing the charge on the atom before and after the reaction, you can tell which atoms are participating in the oxidation reduction reaction. All other atoms in the equation are simply spectator ions. Separate out of the equation the two half-reactions for the atoms that are being reducted and the ones being oxidized. Once the reactions are written in the correct fashion there will be electrons added to left side of the reaction and electrons being produced on the right side of the eq
