Balanced equations are used to allow chemists to calculate how much product they will produce from their reactants. The co-efficients in balanced equations represent the number of moles reacting and ...

When using chemical formula it is possible to calculate the percentage composition of the chemical. This can be useful when extracting metals from ores or when making fertilisers for specific plants.

Conventional neutron numbers are based on the approximations that the mass of the electron is zero and that those of the proton and neutron are each equal to unity. It was shown, by using the exact ...