Talk:Single displacement reaction

Misleading Picture
The picture on the page is incorrect. Chemical equations use yield signs, because the product does not truly equal the reactants. instead, the products are what is created when the reactants, well, react. When the reactants react, they yield a product, they do Not equal a product. 131.91.78.64 (talk) 13:25, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Standardized use of (s) (aq) etc. symbols is needed
Wikipedia must make up its mind which way to do things.


 * Ag2O(s)
 * Ag2O(s)
 * Ag2O(s)

It looks like most people are using the italicized version. I personally prefer it to be in subscript, but I don't know if there has been an official decision yet. Nxtfari (talk) 05:12, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

67.171.43.170 (talk) 05:00, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

So...
For your higschool freshman... It does make since but fails to awnswer a simple aspect: What happens?

Is it bright and explosive, gas produced, change color, ect... what visually happens? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.71.249.209 (talk) 00:31, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Why is it called a displacement reaction? I always called it a replacement reaction. It is also in a ton of chemistry textbooks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Delta3420 (talk • contribs) 00:04, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

They are the same thing, just different names for it131.91.78.64 (talk) 13:21, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

reactivity series wrong
the chemical symbol "Hg" appears twice in different locations on the given reactivity series 86.186.191.85 (talk) 19:31, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Looks like the first "Hg" should be "H", based on standard electrode potentials. I think the person who originally copied in the series mistook "H(g)" for "Hg". IncidentalPoint (talk) 22:17, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Obsolete article
This topic is archaic and rare discussed in courses or in research. One indication of the emptiness of the topic is the weak references. Like Khan Academy. --Smokefoot (talk) 00:27, 26 February 2024 (UTC)