Combined Science GCSE
Reacting ratios
What Reacting ratios means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Reacting ratios
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The ratio in which substances react, which a balanced equation is used to show.
Topics that use Reacting ratios
Related terms
- Balanced symbol equations
- Balancing
- Closed systems
- Conservation of mass
- Mass calculations
- Normal-script multiplier
- Rearrangement of atoms
- Subscript
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