chemical reaction, we assumed that we grabbed the reactants, mixed them together and the reactants chemically combined to give the products. All of the reactants were used up and the only thing left is the products. Some reactions are just like this, for instance, burning gasoline in our car engine: 2 C8H18 + 25 O2 16 CO2 + 18 H2O If we were to write the reverse of this reaction, we would expect it would never occur: 16 CO2 + 18 H2O 2 C8H18 + 25 O2 However, there are other reactions that…
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