PRECIPITATIO

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PRECIPITATION REACTION
A precipitation reaction is a chemical process that
produces an insoluble substance called a precipitate
when two or more aqueous solutions are combined.
When two ionic compounds' cations (positively
charged ions) and anions (negatively charged ions)
mix, an insoluble ionic compound is created.
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• A precipitate is a solid that results from the combination of two aqueous solutions. • They
develop as a result of the compound's insoluble nature in water. Precipitates typically develop
during a twofold replacement process. • In a double replacement reaction, one of the products
will emerge from solution as a precipitate, gas, or liquid, and the reactants will both be
aqueous. • In precipitate reactions, the potential solid precipitate is the sole thing that
concerns us.
 How can we determine when a precipitate reaction
actually OCCURS?
Only when at least one of the products is a
solid can a reaction occur (a precipitate). •
As all the ions are still in the solution if
no precipitate forms, no reaction actually
occurs. • To determine the solubility of
each substance, a solubility table will be
required.
REPRESENTING PRECIPITATION
REACTIONS
Representing Precipitation Reactions •
There are three methods to represent
precipitation reactions: • 1) Formula
Equations
2) Ionic Equation
3) net Ionic Equations
NET IONIC EQUATIONS
Net Ionic Equations 
The remaining ions are still present in the solution but do not combine to create a solid compound. They only concentrate on the
ions engaged in the precipitate compound formation. • Ions that are involved in a double replacement reaction but do not precipitate
as a result of their response They don't truly react because their state doesn't change. In our prior example, the spectator ions would
be NO3 -(aq) and Na+(aq).

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at least Double Replacement
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is a solid can a reaction Actually
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still in the solution if no
precipitate forms, no reaction actually occurs. • All the ions would be regarded as spectators in this scenario.

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EXAMPLE
QUESTION
Predicting Precipitation Reactions:  Predict whether a
precipitate will form when water solutions of silver nitrate,
AgNO3(aq), and sodium sulfide, Na2S(aq), are mixed.  If
there is a precipitation reaction, write the complete and net
ionic equation that describes the reaction.
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