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Marcia is given an incomplete chemical equation that includes the number of nitrogen atoms present in the products of the reaction. How can she conclude that the reaction started with three nitrogen atoms?

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If the products contain 3 nitrogen atoms, then so did the reactants since overall mass is conserved in a chemical reaction.

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