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Lesson: Chapter 16 — Changes of Matter

16.1. The four types of reaction 2 of 8

Question 2

What type of reaction is CaCO3 → CaO + CO2?

The right answer is the one marked above.

A decomposition reaction. There is only one substance on the left, CaCO3, and it has broken into two.

In a combination the single substance is on the right — exactly the other way round. A displacement needs two reactants, and here there is only one.

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