The chemical equation that only displays the elements, compounds, and ions that are directly involved in the chemical process is known as the net ionic equation.
The net ionic equation provides the information of ions that exists in an aqueous medium. Salts get dissolved in polar solvents like water and present as cations and anions in the dissolved state. The net ionic equation indicates the chemical species that undergo a chemical change. The ions that appear on both sides of the equation remain constant and therefore considered to be spectator ions. Many equations have been encountered, most of them have been condensed equations wherein all the reactants and products are indicated as electrically neutral molecules and compounds.
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