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Kalagaraz
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Is there any way to predict how two chemicals will react or is it up to experimentation to discover that?
Take salt + water for example:
NaCl + H2O -> HCl + NaOH
The equation is balanced, but obviously when mixing salt and water you don't get hydrochloric acid...you get salt water... So how can you determine how compounds will react and would there be a way to induce the above reaction?
Sorry, just started learning chemistry like 15 minutes ago (to try and learn about chemiluminescence), and I apologize is this is a really newbie question.
Take salt + water for example:
NaCl + H2O -> HCl + NaOH
The equation is balanced, but obviously when mixing salt and water you don't get hydrochloric acid...you get salt water... So how can you determine how compounds will react and would there be a way to induce the above reaction?
Sorry, just started learning chemistry like 15 minutes ago (to try and learn about chemiluminescence), and I apologize is this is a really newbie question.