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How to Balance Silver nitrate + Sodium hydroxide → Silver hydroxide + Sodium nitrate |
How to Balance: AgNO3 + NaOH → AgOH + NaNO3
Type of Chemical Reaction: This is a double replacement reaction.
Word Equation: Silver nitrate + Sodium hydroxide → Silver hydroxide + Sodium nitrate
| Balancing Strategies: In this reaction, the products are initially NaNO3 + AgOH. However the AgOH would break down into Ag2O and H2O. This would give us NaNO3 + Ag2O + H2O as our products for the overall reaction.
However, the equation balanced here is the initial reaction which produces AgOH and NaNO3. For a complete explanation, watch:
About Balancing Chemical EquationsWhen balancing chemical equations our goal is to have the same number of each type of atom on both sides of the equation.Only change the coefficients (these are the numbers in front substances).
 Never change the subscripts (the small numbers after elements).
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