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4.3 Representations of Reactions

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Particulate Models for Reactions

When representing a reaction in a particle model, you will often have to draw the products from seeing an image of the reactants, or vice versa. When doing this, make sure that the amount of atoms are the same in the reactants drawing and the products drawing, like in the image below.

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