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Balancing chemical equations lab answers is the number of total molecules on the left side of a balanced equation always equal to the number of total molecules on the right side of the equation?

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Since no reaction creates or destroys atoms, every balanced chemical equation must have equal numbers of atoms of each element on each side of the equation. However, the number of molecules does not necessarily have to be the same.

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No, the total number of molecules can be equal or not
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