The Chemistry Of Life
It's already one and a quarter years since Senior High School life hit me. Although my overall experience is good, there is some struggle I have to conquer. One of them is the Chemistry class, a lesson that can be difficult to understand, but it's still interesting. It studies the components of matter and how they interact in a reaction. One of my favorite lessons in that class is something called stoichiometry. It's basically how you can balance a reaction so that the number of atoms in the reactants (the left-hand side) is the same as the number of atoms in the products (the right-hand side). For example, take a look at this propane combustion reaction: C3H8 (g) + O2 (g) -> CO2 (g) + H2O (g) This reaction is unbalanced. There are 3 carbon atoms on the left-hand side and only 1 on the right-hand side. The same happens to hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Now look at this reaction: C3H8 (g) + 5 O2 (g) -> 3 CO2 (g) + 4 H2O (g) Now everything is balanced. There are 3 carbon a...