To balance an equation, what should you never change?

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Douglas Jenkins

Chemistry

31 January, 09:50

To balance an equation, what should you never change?

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Susan Jarvis · Answer 1

To balance a chemical equation, you can't change the subscripts. If you change or mess around with the subscripts, you may be balancing the equation but it's no longer the equation that you are are dealing with.

So as a rule, you can't modify any of the subscripts.