A METHOD FOR DETERMINING STOICHIOMETRIC COEFFICIENTS USING MINORS OF A MATRIX

Rainier Lombaard

doi:10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-875wn-v3

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A METHOD FOR DETERMINING STOICHIOMETRIC COEFFICIENTS USING MINORS OF A MATRIX

10 January 2022, Version 3

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Abstract

Spinel materials often have complex structures and as a result, balancing of reactions with these compounds by traditional methods become very time consuming. A method to calculate the stoichiometric coefficients for chemical reactions using first a modified matrix-inverse method and then an optimised method is proposed. Both methods are explored using linear algebra and the result demonstrated using a typical chromite reduction reaction.

Keywords

Balancing of chemical equations

Stroichiometry

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