A chemical equation is a shorthand description of a chemical reaction.
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The term is chemical equation, which is a symbolic representation of a chemical reaction showing the reactants and products involved using chemical formulas and symbols.
A chemical reaction can be represented by a chemical equation.
A short representation of a chemical reaction would be the net ionic equation.
A chemical equation represents a chemical reaction in which reactants are converted into products. It shows the chemical formulas of the substances involved in the reaction and the proportions in which they combine.
One common method is to write the chemical formulas of reactants on the left side of an arrow and the products on the right side. For example, the reaction between hydrogen gas (H2) and oxygen gas (O2) to form water (H2O) can be written as: 2H2 + O2 → 2H2O. The numbers in front of the formulas represent the balanced coefficients in the reaction.