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Miscellaneous Reactions

There are other types of reactions besides these four categories. We will lump together all of those other types and categorize them as miscellaneous reactions. Two examples are the combustion of methane (natural gas) and propane.

CH4 + O2 rtarrow.gif (850 bytes) CO2 + H2O
C3H8 + O2 rtarrow.gif (850 bytes) CO2 + H2O

Note that these equations do not fit into any of the previous categories, even though they do have some similar features. They are somewhat like decomposition because the carbon and hydrogen are coming apart. They are somewhat like combination because the oxygen is bonding to carbon and to hydrogen. They are somewhat like replacement because the oxygen is replacing the carbon in its bond with hydrogen and replacing the hydrogen in its bond with carbon. But despite those similarities, these reactions don't really fit into any of the other four categories.

These equations also need to be balanced, so take a moment to do that.

 

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