How do you write a chemical word equation for the reaction of diluted hydrochloric acid added to solid magnesium hydroxide producing water and the soluble salt magnesium chloride?

Answer 1

"Chemical word equation" is apparently some kind of "New Chemistry" analogous to the "New Math" of the 1960s and 1970s.

Frankly, I'd say you just wrote one when you were typing out the question.

If you want the real equation a sensible chemist would use, it's

2 HCl + Mg(OH)2(s) -> 2 H2O + MgCl2(aq)

Answer 2

The chemical word equation for this reaction is: Hydrochloric acid + magnesium hydroxide -> water + magnesium chloride. The balanced chemical equation is: 2HCl(aq) + Mg(OH)2(s) -> 2H2O(l) + MgCl2(aq).