When electrons are filling energy levels, the lowest energy sublevels are occupied first. This is Hund's rule.
Hund's rules state that:
Every orbital in a sublevel has to be singularly occupied before any other orbital is able to be doubly occupied.
All of the electrons in single occupied orbitals have to have the same spin to maximize the total spin.
CaCO3 + 2KCL ⇒ CaCl2 + K2CO3
It is balanced as so based on the charges given on the periodic table and polyatomic ions.
Calcium has the charge of 2 but CO3 also shares the same charge, thus cancelling that out.
Potassium has a charge of 1 while Chlorine also shares a charge of 1, also cancelling it out.
Thus, if it performs a double replacement reaction, they would take these charges to the new elements that do not cancel out their charges.
Therefore, we need the coefficient of 2 in front of Potassium Chloride in order to balance the equation as on the products side of the equation, Potassium and Chlorine both have a subscript of 2.
Hope this helps!
Carbon is 12 grams per mole
The number of protons in the nucleus of the atom is equal to the atomic number (z) and the number of electrons in a neutral atom is equal to the number of protons
