Hi, I was doing chemical equasions in class, and the puzzled me.
We/ve been doing them for a few lessons now, but then the teacher asked us to this one:
Glucose > Alcohol + Carbon Dioxide + Water
C.6 H.12 O.6 > C.2 H.5 OH + C O.2 + H.2 O
[C.6 means C sub-script six]
I couldn't figure out how to make the equasion work, even after anout 20 mins of trying [whilke listening to the teacher drone on about things I had already learnt]
What is the solution to this? And are there any easy ways to work out chemical equasions like this? Any hints for long ones with molecules that contain more than 3 elements?
Thanks in advance!