How can you detect that a chemical reaction has occurred

In this chemical reaction, 325 grams of barium (ba) react completely. how many moles of lithium (li) are produced?

Astudent pours 10.0 g of salt into a container of water and observes the amount of time it takes for the salt to dissolve. she then repeats the process using the same amounts of salt and water but this time she slowly stirs the mixture while it is dissolving. the student performs the experiment one more time but this time she stirs the mixture rapidly. the dependent variable in this experiment is: time for salt to dissolve speed of stirring amount of water mass of salt

Why is any chemical reaction always balanced? give reasons and explain the easiest way to solve the balancing problems in chemical equations with stoichiometric coefficients upto 20 as hit and trial doesn't always work. give full reasoning