: How do you know the chemical reaction products if there are 3 or more reactants?

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Like the reactions like acid oxide + water = acid are simple enough , feels like there is a template for them , but when there are more reactants , things get complicated … is there any template for them , like they occur separatedly or something..?

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There is not one, universal law for those reactions, but there are rules which we can use to know. I think it never happens that more than two molecules react together, so we can find out, based on what we already know about reaction speeds, which of those reactions will happen and how much will they happen, then we search whether those new chemicals have some effects on other reactants, and that’s how we get to the end of the reaction.

That or the more obvious answer of just testing the final product, until we find out what’s in it

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