Net Ionic Equations

[MCracchiolo 1C]

How do I write a net ionic equation?

[Vivian Nguyen]

This is briefly covered in Fundamentals J.3 if you want a better explanation, but from what I understand, you should first start with the complete ionic equation. This features everything in the chemical formula, with the aqueous compounds broken up into their ions. Whatever is on both the product and reactant side should be canceled out, giving you the net ionic equation.
Hopefully someone else can clarify on this with a bit more of the chemistry that goes along with the net ionic equation, but until then, I hope this helped.
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[snehabhargava]

In a net ionic equation, you only write what is actually reacting. For example, if you put the salt NaF in water it would completely dissociate but the Na+ will not react with anything. So the net ionic equation would be F- + H20 <--> HF + OH- instead of F- + H20 + Na+ <--> HF + OH- + Na+.