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Combustion is when a substance combines with oxygen to produce a large amount of light and heat. Combustion may be shown generically as X + O2 --> H2O + CO2, with X being the substance.

A real life example of combustion would be the following statement: Dicarbon hydrogen gas and dioxide from carbon dioxide and water. The conversion of this statement into combustion would be to replace the statement with the given elemental symbols, so in this case it would be: C2 + H2 + O2 --> CO2 + H2O. Then, we must balance this equation or else it will not be stable. To do so, we must place the opposite of a given number to counter any positivity or negativity. So in this case, we would place the number four in front of CO2 and two in front of H2O. This will unbalance the left side, so to equal this effect, we must place a two in front of C2 and a five in front of O2. The result is as follows: 2C2 + H2 + 5O2 --> 4CO2 + 2H2O.



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