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Write the balanced decomposition reaction of the hypochlorite ion into the chlorate and chloride ions using the smallest integer coefficients. (in this reaction, sodium ions are spectator ions.)

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This is a redox reaction:

2OCl- --> ClO2- + Cl-

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