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sunflowers
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sunflowers asked in Science & MathematicsChemistry · 6 years ago

Balance the following reaction: silver (I) oxide decomposes to oxygen and silver?

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  • sunflowers
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    I am having a hard time with this one because I don't even understand how silver (I) oxide can exist. How can Ag have a +1 charge when O has a -2 charge? Doesn't it have to be silver (II) oxide so that the charges balance?

  • DavidB
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    It is Ag2O so

    2Ag2O ---> 4Ag + O2

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