Adding our balanced half-reactions does not give a balanced equation




We need to change the ratio of aluminum to ammonium perchlorate by multiplying the top three equations by appropriate integers.

Notice that equations 2 and 3 both involve amonium perchlorate. Therefore they must be multiplied by the same number since we can't chage the ratio of cations to anions in the salt.


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