Asked by ruth

Calcium reacts with oxygen to form calcium oxide.

The chemical equation for this reaction is Ca + O2→CaO.

What is the reactant, or what are the reactants, in the equation?

Responses

CaO
uppercase C lowercase a uppercase O

O2
uppercase O subscript 2 end subscript

Ca + O2
uppercase C lowercase a plus uppercase O subscript 2 end subscript

Ca

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Ca + O2

The reactants are calcium (Ca) and oxygen gas (O2). CaO is the product.