Now, a net ionic equation shows the ion's participating in the chemical reaction by removing what we call the spectator ions. These spectator ions represent compounds that are both reactants and products. So they're found on both sides of an equation, but they are not part of a net ionic equation.
Now, when it comes to the net ionic equation, we're going to say comes from the complete ionic equation. So remember, we started out with our molecular equation. From there we're able to determine our complete ionic equation and then from our complete ionic equation we now are looking at our net ionic equation.
O. This is the path you have to take to get to our net ionic equation. Now that we know how they're connected, let's move on to the next video and take a look at an example question.