{"id":209,"date":"2012-03-05T07:10:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/?p=209"},"modified":"2012-03-05T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T11:10:08","slug":"writing-word-equations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/2012\/03\/05\/writing-word-equations\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Word Equations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students will reinforce predicting and balancing chemical equations AND THEN THEY NEED TO START WRITING THE SKELETON EQUATIONS INTO WORDS. Example: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2<\/span>NaOH + <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">(1)<\/span>H2SO4 \u2192 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">(1)<\/span>Na2SO4 + <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2<\/span>H2O. In words, this is expressed as: <em>Two molecules of sodium hydroxide <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">combine<\/span> with one molecule of sulfuric acid ( <\/em><strong>or<\/strong><em>\u00a0one molecule of hydrogen sulfate) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">to yield<\/span> one molecule of sodium sulfate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">and<\/span> two molecules of water. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note that instead of using the word &#8220;combine&#8221;, you can also\u00a0use\u00a0&#8220;react&#8221; or &#8220;join&#8221;. Do not use the word &#8220;plus&#8221; to describe &#8220;+ sign&#8221; since you are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">not<\/span> adding numbers; you are carrying out a chemical reaction.\u00a0Furthermore, use the conjunction &#8220;and&#8221; to represent the &#8220;+ sign&#8221; in the products since it\u00a0means &#8220;also produced&#8221; in a reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, other terms besides &#8220;to yield&#8221;\u00a0can be used to represent the arrow such as &#8220;to make&#8221;, &#8220;to produce&#8221;, or &#8220;to result in&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Students will do #&#8217;s: 64, 65, &amp; 66 on page 312 as practice on writing word equations.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will reinforce predicting and balancing chemical equations AND THEN THEY NEED TO START WRITING THE SKELETON EQUATIONS INTO WORDS. Example: 2NaOH + (1)H2SO4 \u2192 (1)Na2SO4 + 2H2O. In words, this is expressed as: Two molecules of sodium hydroxide combine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/2012\/03\/05\/writing-word-equations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/salehm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}