The starting materials in a chemical reaction are called blank

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The answer is: reactants ... or can be called reagents too.

Why?

In every chemical reaction, we have the reactants. The reactants are the starting materials which after a chemical reaction will be transformed in products. After every chemical reaction, we have the products, but we also can have reactants (it happens when not all the reactants are used).

For example, given the following reaction:

NH3 + 2O2 → HNO3 + H2O

Reactants are: NH3 and 2O2

Products are: HNO3 and H2O

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Answer is reactants, ending is products