You have to use everything that is given since you have to know which is the limiting reactant. We find the limiting reactant by calculating the number of moles of each reactant and compare the number of moles. The limiting reactant would be the one that is consumed fully by the reaction.
Most likely it’s crystalline structure, which makes it small granules that are soluble in water. Most, if not all, ionic compounds are salts. And salts dissolve in water.
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I can help say like gas is steaming from a pot like you cooking on the gas is being conserved after it evaporates and liquid if you drink water it’s going into your body so it’s being conserved and solid said like i have a brick and you throw it and it breaks it had been conserved because it’s broken