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Single-Displacement Reactions

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A single-displacement reaction is a redox reaction where one element displaces another from a compound, emerging as a free element.

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A more reactive metal placed in a dissolved metal salt can displace the less reactive metal, which plates out as solid.

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A single-displacement reaction always changes oxidation numbers, unlike a precipitation reaction, where ions merely swap partners unchanged.

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