Given the equation: ch4 + br2 → ch3br + hbr which type of reaction does this equation represent

Answer : The given equation represents "Substitution reaction" of alkanes

Explanation :

The given reaction is,

To find out the type of reaction, we need to look at the reactants and products involved in the reaction

CH₄ is an alkane known as methane and Br₂ is bromine which belongs to halogen family.

During the reaction , we can see that one of the H atoms of methane is substituted by Br to form a product CH₃Br.

Therefore this is a "substitution reaction of alkanes" Since a hydrogen atom gets replaced by a halogen atom, it is also termed as "halogenation of alkanes"

the atomic number will stay the same no matter how many electrons it has, so it doesn’t decrease nor increase. it’ll only change with a different number of protons