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.
Determining The Stoichiometry Of Chemical Reactions. A balanced chemical equation gives the mole ratios of reactants and products in a chemical reaction. How can the stoichiometry of a chemical reaction be determined experimentally? This experiment uses the method of continuous variations to determine the mole ratio of the two reactants.