Friday, November 13, 2015

2.15 Understand these displacement reactions as redox reactions.

When a more reactive halogen displaces a less reactive halogen, it's called a redox reaction. This is because an element has gained something and the other has lost something:

OIL RIG:
Oxidisation
Is
Loss (of electrons)
Reduction
Is
Gain (of electrons)


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