What Kind of Chemical Reactions are There?
This post will go through some common chemical reactions for Prelim Chemistry.
Topic: Chemical Reactions
- Conduct investigations to predict and identify the products of a range of reactions, for example:
- Synthesis
- Decomposition
- Combustion
- Precipitation
- Acid/base reactions
- Acid/carbonate reactions
Introducing Chemical Reaction Types
This video will go through some basic types of chemical reactions. Precipitation is a kind of double-displacement reaction, where one of the products is an insoluble precipitate.
Acid Reactions
The acid reactions should be memorised, they are generalised as follows:
acid + metal -> salt + hydrogen gas
acid + base -> salt + water
acid + carbonate -> salt + water + carbon dioxide
This video goes through acids reacting with metals.
This video looks at acid and base reactions.
This video looks at acid and carbonate reactions.
