When oxygen becomes depleted in a landfill, some of the organic waste such as paper and cardboard slowly undergoes decomposition under sulfidogenic conditions. Write a balanced overall reaction for decomposition of glucose when sulfate serves as the electron acceptor, resulting in sulfide formation.
When oxygen becomes depleted in a landfill, some of the organic waste such as paper and cardboard slowly undergoes decomposition under sulfidogenic conditions. Write a balanced overall reaction for decomposition of glucose when sulfate serves as the electron acceptor, resulting in sulfide formation.
A chemical reaction depicts the rearrangement of bonds between the constituent atoms of the reactants to form the products.
This suggests that the number of atoms of each element present before and after the reaction will be the same.
Consequently, in the balanced chemical equation of a reaction, all the elements involved in the reaction have the same number of atoms on both the reactant and product sides.
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