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.
Write a balanced chemical equation for this reaction. 1  Identify the reactants and products: reactants : zinc and hydrochloric acid. products : hydrogen and zinc chloride. 2  Write the word equation: general form of equation: reactants. â. 3  Write the formula for all reactants and products: zinc : Zn. hydrochloric acid : HCl.