Answer: two or more different pure substances, which may be elements or compounds.
Explanation:
The term varieties of matter is kind of ambiguos since it is not defined.
The best approach to the question is to think of matter as it can be classified into to kinds: pure substaces and mixtures.
Elements and compounds are pure substances.
Elements are pure substances constituted by only one kind of atoms. An element cannot be divided into simpler substances either by physical or chemical media.
A compound is a chemical combination of two or more different elements. A compound can be divided into simpler substances by chemical reactions, but not by physical media. The properties of compounds are different of those of the elements of which they are constituted. The composition of a compoind (ratio among its elements) is fixed.
A mixture is the physical combination of two or more pure substances (either different elements or compounds) which can be mixed in any proportion. This is, its composition is variable. The substances that form the mixture can be separated by physical media.
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Answer:
a) Fe(s) + Ni^2+(aq) ----> Fe^2+(aq) + Ni(s)
b) no reaction
c) no reaction
d) 2Mg(s) + 2H2O(l)-----> 2Mg^2+(aq) + O2(g) +4H^+(aq)
e) no reaction
Explanation:
It is important to say here that the ability of a particular chemical specie to displace another chemical specie is dependent on the relative standard reduction potentials of the species involved.
All the reactions stated above are redox reactions. Let us take reaction E as an example. Mg^2+ has a reduction potential of -2.37 V while Cr^3+ has a reduction potential of -0.74V. Since the reduction potential of magnesium is more negative than that of chromium, there is no reaction when a piece of chromium metal is dipped into a solution of Mg^2+.
Similarly, though metals displace hydrogen gas from dilute acids, metals that are less than hydrogen in the reactivity series cannot do that. This explains why there is no reaction when copper and silver are dipped into dilute acid solutions.
Reaction occurs when iron is dipped into a nickel solution because the reduction potential of Fe^2+ is far more negative than that of Ni^2+.
Answer: 
Explanation:
According to the law of conservation of mass, mass can neither be created nor be destroyed. Thus the mass of products has to be equal to the mass of reactants. The number of atoms of each element has to be same on reactant and product side. Thus chemical equations are balanced.
The balanced chemical equation for showing hydrogen peroxide decomposing into hydrogen and oxygen is:
