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CH₄ + 2O₂ → CO₂ + 2H₂O
carbon dioxide: product
methane: reactant
oxygen: reactant
water: product
Methane and oxygen are reactants because they are the substances we start with. They are on the side of the equation that the arrow is pointing away from.
Carbon dioxide and water are products because they are the new substances that are the yields of the equation. They are on the side of the equation that the arrow is pointing towards.
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It's useful because it highlights structures in biological tissue.
There are some standard numbers that help us describe the structure of an atom and help us categorize them. Those are the atomic number, the mass number and the numbers of electrons in an atom (or ion). Atoms are electrically neutral, hence they have the same number of protons as electrons. If an atom has a charge and has thus become an ion, it is because electrons joined it or left. For example in this case, since the ion has +2 charge, 2 electrons left it and thus the ion has 4 electrons (2 electrons less than its protons). The mass number is the sum of the protons and neutrons of an atom (that are in the nucleus). In this case, this yields a mass number of 13 for this ion. The atomic number of an atom (or ion) is the total number of protons in the nucleus. Protons do not leave the nucleus except for radioactive reactions and thus the atomic number of an atom (or ion) does not change in chemical reactions. In this case, the ion has an atomic number of 6.
