Posted by tom on Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 6:35pm.
Two ways for two different kinds.
1. Trial and error (but really educated guesses to help along the way).
2. Oxidation-reduction equations are balanced with a set of rules; basically, we make the electrons lost equal to the electrons gained.
There is a third method using simultaneous equations.
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