Matrix method for balancing chemical equations of few ‎significant inorganic reactions

  • Authors

    • Gitalee Sharma Department of Chemistry, Dibrugarh University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dibrugarh University, Assam, India
    • Surashmi Bhattacharyya Department of Agricultural Statistics, Biswanath College of Agriculture, Assam, India.
    • Niranjan Bora Department of Mathematics, Dibrugarh University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3729-5848
    https://doi.org/10.14419/8g6xtb36

    Received date: April 28, 2025

    Accepted date: June 2, 2025

    Published date: June 7, 2025

  • Augmented Matrix; Chemical Equations; Gauss Elimination Method; Linear Equations; Matrix Method

  • Abstract

    Balancing chemical equations provides a unified framework on understanding and quantifying chemical reactions, making it a fundamental ‎tool in chemistry. The prime objectives to balanced chemical equations are to make both sides of the reaction, the reactants as well as the ‎products, possess the same number of atoms per element. It is worth mentioning that understanding how and in what amounts certain mole-‎cules are created is made easier with the use of chemical reactions. It also indicates the quantity of reactants required to complete the reaction. ‎These two identities of a chemical reaction are specified by balancing the reaction, which also helps in understanding how to speed up or ‎stop the process. However, balancing long chemical reactions is a difficult and time-consuming task. Employing the principles of mathemat‎ical computation to the balancing of chemical equations may come as a remedy to this problem. Thus, in the current paper, we use a matrix-‎based method, Gauss Elimination mathematical model to balance the chemical equations of a few specific inorganic reactions. Computation ‎work was performed and validated with the help of Python software‎.

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    Sharma, G., Bhattacharyya, S. ., & Bora, N. (2025). Matrix method for balancing chemical equations of few ‎significant inorganic reactions. International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 14(2), 22-28. https://doi.org/10.14419/8g6xtb36