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Mistake Master · AP Chemistry · Unit 4 · Step-Through Animation

Classify By What Moves

You'll learnto classify a reaction by which particle got transferred, not by memorized names.

Four beakers on the bench, four completely different shows. There is no catalogue of names to learn here, only one question — what actually got transferred? — and its answer sorts almost every reaction in the course. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · THE REACTION SORTER · v4

four bays, and one question that sorts them
Before you start
What you're looking at
Four reaction bays: acid in base, silver in salt water, zinc in copper sulfate, and methane burning.
The question
What single particle changed hands in each one?
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