Double-Displacement+C.+Fuller

Double-displacement is similar to single-displacement except that two elements in a compound are replaced by two other elements. Double-displacement may be shown generically as WX + YZ --> WY + XZ, with X and Y switching places.

A real life example of double-displacement would be the following statement: Silver nitrate and sodium chloride react to produce sodium nitrate and silver chloride. The conversion of this statement into double-displacement would be to replace the statement with the given elemental symbols, so in this case it would be: AgNO3 + NaCl --> NaNO3 + AgCl. As the equation is already balanced, we do not need change it.



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