WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STOICHIOMETRY AND THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MASS?
Stoichiometry is the calculation of quantitative (measurable) relationships of the reactants and products in a balanced chemical reaction (chemicals). The law of conservation of mass/matter, also known as law of mass/matter conservation says that the mass of a closed system will remain constant, regardless of the processes acting inside the system. A similar statement is that mass cannot be created/destroyed, although it may be rearranged in space, and changed into different types of particles. This implies that for any chemical process in a closed system, the mass of the reactants must equal the mass of the products. This is also the central idea behind the first law of thermodynamics.
