alleryStart learning →A balanced equation that does not show the dissolved ions explicitly is called a:
AComplete ionic equation
BNet ionic equation
CHalf reaction equation
DMolecular equation
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Molecular equation
1. The same reaction can be written at three levels of detail.
2. This balanced equation, derived in the usual fashion, is called a molecular equation because it does not explicitly represent the ionic species that are present in solution.
3. Explicitly representing all dissolved ions instead results in a complete ionic equation.
4. Cancelling the spectators from that gives the net ionic equation.
_Source: OpenStax Chemistry 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 4 'Stoichiometry of Chemical Reactions', sections 4.1-4.5_
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