Balancing Redox Reactions

[Tamera Scott 1G]

When canceling excess H20 molecules, does it matter which side of the reaction your H2O molecules are in?

[timothy_ho_4B]

The side with excess H2O molecules should have the leftover H2O molecules, but overall it shouldn't matter which side the molecules are on.

[Cameron_Greenberg_3C]

The behavior of redox reactions is similar to a normal reaction in that molecules can cancel on either side of the arrow. So if a basic half reaction has 4 H2O on the left and 2 on the right, it can be simplified to just 2 H2O on the left.

[Jasmine Chow 1F]

After the excess H2O molecules are canceled out the H20 molecules must stay on the same side the excess was originally on. It can not be moved to the other side of the reaction.