{"id":25479,"date":"2025-06-19T03:06:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/?p=25479"},"modified":"2025-06-19T03:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:06:57","slug":"c3h8-o2-%e2%86%92-co2-h2o-balance-the-chemical-equations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/c3h8-o2-%e2%86%92-co2-h2o-balance-the-chemical-equations\/","title":{"rendered":"C3H8 + O2 \u2192 CO2 + H2O Balance the chemical equations."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>C3H8 + O2 \u2192 CO2 + H2O Balance the chemical equations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-light-green-cyan-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The balanced chemical equation is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C\u2083H\u2088 + 5O\u2082 \u2192 3CO\u2082 + 4H\u2082O<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To balance the chemical equation <strong>C\u2083H\u2088 + O\u2082 \u2192 CO\u2082 + H\u2082O<\/strong>, follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1: Balance carbon (C) atoms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The reactant <strong>C\u2083H\u2088<\/strong> has <strong>3 carbon atoms<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the product side, carbon appears in <strong>CO\u2082<\/strong>, which has <strong>1 carbon atom per molecule<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To balance carbon, place a <strong>3<\/strong> in front of <strong>CO\u2082<\/strong>: <strong>C\u2083H\u2088 + O\u2082 \u2192 3CO\u2082 + H\u2082O<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2: Balance hydrogen (H) atoms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The reactant <strong>C\u2083H\u2088<\/strong> has <strong>8 hydrogen atoms<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the product side, hydrogen appears in <strong>H\u2082O<\/strong>, which has <strong>2 hydrogen atoms per molecule<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To balance hydrogen, place a <strong>4<\/strong> in front of <strong>H\u2082O<\/strong>: <strong>C\u2083H\u2088 + O\u2082 \u2192 3CO\u2082 + 4H\u2082O<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3: Balance oxygen (O) atoms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Now count the total oxygen atoms on the product side:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>3CO\u2082<\/strong> contains <strong>3 \u00d7 2 = 6 oxygen atoms<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>4H\u2082O<\/strong> contains <strong>4 \u00d7 1 = 4 oxygen atoms<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total = <strong>6 + 4 = 10 oxygen atoms<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the reactant side, <strong>O\u2082<\/strong> has <strong>2 oxygen atoms per molecule<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To get 10 oxygen atoms, you need <strong>5 O\u2082 molecules<\/strong>: <strong>C\u2083H\u2088 + 5O\u2082 \u2192 3CO\u2082 + 4H\u2082O<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 4: Verify<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Carbon: 3 atoms on both sides.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hydrogen: 8 atoms on both sides.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oxygen: 10 atoms on both sides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is now a <strong>completely balanced<\/strong> chemical equation. It shows the combustion of propane (C\u2083H\u2088) in oxygen (O\u2082), producing carbon dioxide (CO\u2082) and water (H\u2082O). This reaction is an example of a hydrocarbon combustion reaction, which always results in carbon dioxide and water when complete<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-35.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-35.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-35-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-35-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-35-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C3H8 + O2 \u2192 CO2 + H2O Balance the chemical equations. The Correct Answer and Explanation is: The balanced chemical equation is: C\u2083H\u2088 + 5O\u2082 \u2192 3CO\u2082 + 4H\u2082O Explanation: To balance the chemical equation C\u2083H\u2088 + O\u2082 \u2192 CO\u2082 + H\u2082O, follow these steps: Step 1: Balance carbon (C) atoms Step 2: Balance hydrogen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25481,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25479\/revisions\/25481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}