Answer to Question #185609 in General Chemistry for fariqe

Question

When sodium chloride reacts with potassium nitrate

Answer 1

The correct answer is;these two alkali metal salts do not react with each other, even if you try to fuse a solid mixture of the two. When aqueous solutions of the two are mixed there won’t be any double decomposition, as there is no possibility of formation of an insoluble salt. So, you will get only a homogeneous mixture of the two salts, containing the Na+, Cl-, K+ and NO3- ions in water.

NaCl(aq) + KNO3(aq) = KCl(aq)+ NaNO₃(aq)