Balancing Redox Reactions
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Balancing Redox Reactions
When balancing redox reactions, you add H+ to an acidic solution and OH- for a basic solution, right? Why do we not use H3O+?
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Re: Balancing Redox Reactions
I believe you don't use H3O+ because then it would unbalance the oxygens in the reaction
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Re: Balancing Redox Reactions
H30+ is basically just H20 and H+ so adding H30+ would just complicate the balancing by including extra molecules that aren't needed when you could just use H+ to balance.
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Re: Balancing Redox Reactions
We use H+ to balance redox reactions because its easier. With H3O+, we have extra oxygens we have to balance so it would make reaction balancing harder.
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