My textbook had this question on balancing chemical reactions
Ozone reacts with nitric oxide to give nitrogen dioxide and oxygen gas
Here's how I balanced it: OX3+NO⟶NOX2+OX2
However I realised that the equation is also balanced if I write it as: 2OX3+4NO⟶4NOX2+OX2
and when it is written as: 3OX3+NO⟶NOX2+4OX2
This seems wrong as I am sure that there cannot be more than one way of balancing a reaction but I do not have a satisfactory explanation. What is going wrong here?
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