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 Question Protected by orthocresol♦ occurred Jun 12 '17 at 20:38 4 added 1 character in body edited Apr 11 '17 at 1:21 Melanie Shebel♦ 5,95377 gold badges3636 silver badges7575 bronze badges In your opinion, what would be the simplest way to balance any size of the chemical equation? For example here is an equation: $$\ce{C12H26 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O}$$ I saw some ways by putting letters in front of each molecule, but I just don't get too much how to do this with this method! My teacher is always speaking about another method, but it simply doesn't feel logic/ mathematicsmathematics is enough for me... In your opinion, what would be the simplest way to balance any size of chemical equation? For example here is an equation: $$\ce{C12H26 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O}$$ I saw some ways by putting letters in front of each molecule, but I just don't get too much how to do this with this method! My teacher is always speaking about another method, but it simply doesn't feel logic/ mathematics is enough for me... In your opinion, what would be the simplest way to balance any size of the chemical equation? For example here is an equation: $$\ce{C12H26 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O}$$ I saw some ways by putting letters in front of each molecule, but I just don't get too much how to do this with this method! My teacher is always speaking about another method, but it simply doesn't feel logic/mathematics is enough for me. 3 corrected tag. everyday-chem tag not needed. | link edit approved Jun 14 '15 at 14:31 Del Pate 1,98122 gold badges1313 silver badges3131 bronze badges 2 improved formatting edit approved Apr 17 '14 at 5:07 Martin - マーチン♦ 37.3k1010 gold badges123123 silver badges252252 bronze badges In your opinion, what would be the simplest way to balance any size of chemical equation  ? For example here is an equation  : C12H26 + O2 => CO2 + H2O $$\ce{C12H26 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O}$$ I saw some ways by putting letters in front of each molecule, but I just don't get too much how to do this with this method  ! My teacher is always speaking about an otheranother method, but it simply doesn't feel logic/mathematic mathematics is enough for me... In your opinion, what would be the simplest way to balance any size of chemical equation  ? For example here is an equation  : C12H26 + O2 => CO2 + H2O I saw some ways by putting letters in front of each molecule but I just don't get too much how to do this with this method  ! My teacher is always speaking about an other method but it simply doesn't feel logic/mathematic enough for me... In your opinion, what would be the simplest way to balance any size of chemical equation? For example here is an equation: $$\ce{C12H26 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O}$$ I saw some ways by putting letters in front of each molecule, but I just don't get too much how to do this with this method! My teacher is always speaking about another method, but it simply doesn't feel logic/ mathematics is enough for me... Tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackChemistry/status/456485297987936256 occurred Apr 16 '14 at 17:32 1 asked Apr 16 '14 at 14:43 Trevör 19111 gold badge11 silver badge55 bronze badges