On Balancing Chemical Equations: Past and Present

The main purposes of this paper are to give a listing of selected papers on balancing chemical equations that may be useful to chemistry teachers and potential authors as background material, and to provide some comparisons of methods. The selection criteria for the references were deliberately broad, in order to include a wide variety of topics and seminal historical citations, and the references are annotated to increase their usefulness. The source of most of the cited papers is this Journal through 1995; additional relevant material is published in several other important educational scientific journals.