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So we've got the problem of writing the chemical equation for the decomposition reaction that takes place when silver oxide is heated.
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So first of all, i want you to notice that we have one reactant.
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When we have one reactant, we know this is a decomposition reaction.
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There's only one way for it to go.
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Next, i want to write the formula for silver oxide.
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So we've got silver with its one valence electron that it wants to get rid of.
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And oxygen with its six valence electrons it is not happy it wants two more electrons so this is why we need two silver atoms to make it happy because silver only has one to get rid of so our formula is going to be ag2 oh so we write our formula for our reactant we put a yield sign and over the yield sign we put a heat a delta sign which means heat was added to this reaction to make it go.
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Heat was added.
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Silver metal is one of the products.
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It's a solid at room temperature, like most metals...