Reaction+Double+Displacement

Double Displacement

v Double displacement is a reaction in which the positive ion of one compound replaces the positive ion of the other compound to produce two new compounds. v An easier way to explain it is that a double displacement is when your 2 metals switch places

An example of this would be:
 * AB+ CD --> CB + AD**

A sentence example would be: Silver Nitrate and Sodium Chloride combine to produce Sodium Nitrate and Silver Chloride.

To turn this sentence into a formula what you would is 1. Read the sentence 2. Figure out which are the products 3. Turn the words into formulas __Inorganic__  1. write symbols 2. Figure out charge 3. Switcheroo 4. Reduce 3a. you also need to remember the diatomic elements which are H2 N2 O2 F2 CL2 Br2 and I2 4. Finally once all the names and symbols are written out balance the equation by only altering coefficients. **GO BACK TO THE MAIN PAGE TO LEARN HOW TO BALANCE EQUATIONS**   SO what you are first going to do is write out the symbols which are: <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Ag (silver), NO3<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">(Nitrate), Na (Sodium), Cl (Chlorine). Then what you want to do is make sure that when you start to write the products of the reactants that you switch the places of the 2 metals. so when you write it into formula form it will look like this:

Ag<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">NO3<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">+ NaCl ---> Na<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">NO3<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">+ AgCl As you can see in this formula above that the silver traded places with the sodium and the Sodium traded places with the silver

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Once you have done all these steps out you will have gotten the equation like the one I put up and you will have had to make sure that you balanced it. You then will have done your first double displacement formula. <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255); font-family: Wingdings">J <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">



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