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Lesson: Chapter 16 — Changes of Matter

16.1. The four types of reaction 5 of 8

Question 5

What is the product of the combination reaction between calcium oxide (CaO) and water (H2O)?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Ca(OH)2. That is calcium hydroxide — and being a combination, it has a single product.

Options with two products cannot be combinations; a combination always has exactly one compound on the right. This is also the reaction that makes limewater.

Answer the question to continue.