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Explain why action-reaction forces do not cancel each out

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I "love" these sorts of questions ...
Book on a table. Book presses down on table as the action. Table reacts by pressing up on book. So, the forces are on different objects.

Object colliding with, a very heavy obstacle such as a brick wall. Object presses on brick wall. Action. Wall presses back on object. Action- Reaction equal and opposite and on different things. So, object gets a "recoil impulse of force" from wall and bounces off".Wall gets a "recoil impulse of force" and hardly moves 'cos of its much bigger mass (which is why I chose it for the example).
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