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Offline dotty

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Chemical bonds
« on: January 28, 2012, 08:52:53 AM »
Can you please tell me how many chemical bonds are broken and made in this chemical equation....it is doing my head in!!
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Re: Chemical bonds
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2012, 08:53:43 PM »
Is it just me or is there actually no chemical equation that I can see?

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Re: Chemical bonds
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2012, 07:39:30 AM »
Is it just me or is there actually no chemical equation that I can see?

There is none  ::)
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Re: Chemical bonds
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2012, 01:53:54 PM »
Is it just me or is there actually no chemical equation that I can see?

There is none  ::)
Oooppps, I forgot to add the equation!!
C2H4+3O2=2CO2+2H2O.....sorry about that X
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Re: Chemical bonds
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2012, 02:21:19 PM »
You can try drawing it on paper, with all the bonds shown as straight lines, then count them.
Hey, I'm not judging.  I just like to shoot straight.  I'm a man of science.

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Re: Chemical bonds
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2012, 06:08:09 AM »
Is it just me or is there actually no chemical equation that I can see?

There is none  ::)
Oooppps, I forgot to add the equation!!
C2H4+3O2=2CO2+2H2O.....sorry about that X

How many bonds you attribute to each?
C2H4?
O2?
CO2?
H2O?
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