The gizzard: The bird stomach's second chamber is known as the gizzard. If you've ever eaten a chicken gizzard you know how tough and rubbery it is. To accomplish what the gizzard does, it absolutely must be tough, for the gizzard's main function is to grind and digest tough food.
C12H22O11 + 12 O2 Â® 12 CO2 + 11 H2O This illustrates the methods used for writing balanced reaction equations: 1  Determine the reactants and products. In this case, the products are CO2 and H2O, determined by common sense. 2  Apply the fundamental principle of conservation of atoms.
An equation written may or may not be balanced. It is balanced if the number of elements on both sides of the arrow, that is before and after the reaction, is equal. Sometimes the number of elements is not the same on both sides of the arrow, then we need to balance the equation. This is done in accordance to the law of conservation of mass which states that the mass of a substance does not get destroyed or created due to a chemical reaction.