Combined Science GCSE
Reactants
What Reactants means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
The names of the starting substances, written on the left of the arrow and separated by a plus sign where there is more than one.
Carbon dioxide and water, which are converted into glucose and oxygen during photosynthesis.
Carbon dioxide and water, which are converted into glucose and oxygen.
Topics that use Reactants
- Atoms, elements and compounds (AQA GCSE)
- How oxygen increased (AQA GCSE)
- Photosynthetic reaction (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Products
- Photosynthesis
- Arrow
- Balanced symbol equation
- Balancing
- Chemical reactions
- Chemical symbols and names
- Chloroplasts
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