Writing the equation for germanium dioxide heated with carbon

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Can someone tell me how to write this equation?
Germanium dioxide (GeO2) is heated with carbon to obtain germanium and carbon monoxide.
 
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GeO2 + C + Heat => Ge + CO

You can balance it yourself, its pretty easy. You wouldn't normally write + heat but I can't draw the enthalpy arrow on here.
 
dextercioby said:
Write it

[tex]GeO_{2}+C+\mathcal{Q}\rightarrow Ge+CO\uparrow[/tex]

and do the redox.

Daniel.

Nice LaTex Dan!, nice touch on CO going off as a gas. I might have used [tex]Q[/tex] instead of [tex]\mathcal{Q}[/tex]. But that's just me. :biggrin: So that is a better symbol for adding heat rather than [tex]\Delta H[/tex] ? :rolleyes: By the way Dfly, redox is an "advanced" way of reminding you to balance your equation.
 
Everyone knows that [itex]H[/itex] stands for enthalpy (where it is possible not to confuse it with the hamiltonian),while [itex]Q/\mathcal{Q}[/itex] stands for heat.:wink:

Daniel.