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Sep 12, 2017

Double displacement reaction is a chemical reaction in which 2 ionic compound change switch their components to make new compound, you can think about is as swapping of anions or cations between the two compounds:

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Let us take for example:

BaCl2+Na2SO4BaSO4+2NaCl

Ba2+2Cl+2Na+SO24

by switching the anions or cations we get:
Ba2+SO24+2Na+2Cl

Ba2+2Cl+2Na+SO24Ba2+SO24+2Na+2Cl

BaCl2+Na2SO4BaSO4+2NaCl