Question

Precipitation reactions produce _______ salts.

Answer 1

• A chemical reaction happening in an aqueous solution when two ionic bonds combine, leading to the formation of an insoluble salt is called a precipitation reaction.
• Precipitates are insoluble salts that develop during precipitation reactions. They are separated from the other reaction mixture.
• They are denoted by a downward arrow written beside the generated product.
• For example: ${\mathrm{AgNO}}_3\left(\mathrm{aq}\right)+\mathrm{KCl}\left(\mathrm{aq}\right)\to {\mathrm{KNO}}_3\left(\mathrm{aq}\right)+\mathrm{AgCl}(\downarrow )$
• In the above reaction, AgCl is formed as the insoluble salt or precipitate.

Thus, precipitation reactions produce insoluble salts.