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Lesson: Chapter 16 — Changes of Matter

16.1. The four types of reaction 8 of 8

Question 8

What type of reaction is 2Ag2CO3 → 4Ag + 2CO2 + O2, and why?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Decomposition — there is only one substance on the left. Silver carbonate has broken down into three substances.

Three products do not make it a combination — a combination has one. A displacement needs two reactants, and here there is only one.

Answer the question to continue.