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Balanced equation for copper wire mixing with silver nitrate

[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 11-09-04] [Hit: ]
since copper is mopre active,http://www.files.chem.vt.by being more active it means that Cu metal will lose electrons to become a positive ion.......
In Chemistry class, we put Copper wire in Silver Nitrate. Now I know it's a single displacement type of reaction but I need the balanced chemical equation.. please explain what's happening in the reaction and explain how you balanced the equation!! detail please :D

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a single replacment starts with a single element & a single compound ...
& produces a new single element & new single compound
Zn+H2SO4-->ZnSO4+H2 single replacment
2KBr+Cl2-->2KCI+Br2 single replacment

your reaction is
Cu (s) & 2 AgNO3 (aq) --> Cu(NO3)2 (aq) & 2 Ag (s)

I balanced the equation knowing taht the most stable ion that Cu is oxidized into is Cu+2

we knew that the reaction would work, since copper is "mopre active", more reactive" tha Ag
http://www.files.chem.vt.edu/RVGS/ACT/no…

by being "more active" it means that Cu metal will lose electrons to become a positive ion.
& Ag + ion will take those electrons to return to silver metal''

to balance the equation,
I had to know that the formula for silver nitrate was AgNO3, telling us that Ag+1 is used
& I had to know that Cu+2 , the colorful blue copper ion in water, is the most commonly formed copper species
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