Question

What is chemical displacement? Give an example.

Answer 1

Chemical displacement is a reaction in which more reactive elements displaces the less reactive elements from their compounds.

Ex:

(1) $CuS{O}_4+Fe\to FeS{O}_4+Cu\downarrow$

(2) $C{l}_2+2KI\to 2KCl+I_2\downarrow$