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.
1 Write the half-reactions and balance the key elements: 2  Add electron to compensate the oxidation state changes: 3  Since the half-reactions are balanced with respect to charges and number of atoms, no further work is required. 4  Just add the two equations and get a balanced equation.uide for writing and balancing half-reaction equations. 1  Identify the key element that undergoes an oxidation state change. 2  Balance the number of atoms of the key element on both sides. 3  Add the appropriate number of electrons to compensate for the change of oxidation state.