In this chapter, you will learn how to write chemical equations from descriptions of chemical reactions. You will learn how to apply the rules for balancing chemical reactions, and how to categorize chemical reactions as one of five types: decomposition, combustion, single replacement, double replacement, or combination. The chapter includes a description of reactions in aqueous solutions. These reactions generally take place between two ionic compounds and are often characterized by the production of a precipitate. Finally, you will learn to use solubility rules to predict the formation of a precipitate.

In this chapter, you will learn: to write and balance equations describing chemical reactions to categorize chemical reactions by type to predict the products of reactions to write and balance net ionic equations to use solubility rules to predict the precipitate formed in double-replacement reactions