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Combustion

Combustion occurs when an element reacts with oxygen to produce a large amount of light or heat. An example of this would be: A + O2 ---> CO2 + H2O

In a real life situation you would plug in real elements. Such as this sentence; Dicarbon Hydrogen gas and Dioxide form Carbon Dioxide and Water.

That in equation form looks like this:

C2H2 + O2 ---> CO2 + H2O

Now again we need to balance the equation:

C2H2 + O2 ---> CO2 + H2O

Lets start by balancing the Oxygen atoms. So lets put a "5" in front of the "O" on the left, a "4" before the "C" on the right, and a "2" before the "H" on the right.

C2H2 + 5O2 ---> 2CO2 + 2H2O

Now we need to balance the rest of the equation, to do that we should place a "2" before the "C" on the left. That will make the correct equation look like this:

2C2H2 + 5O2 ---> 2CO2 + 2H2O

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