C5 Flashcards
What is the reactivity series?
The reactivity series is a list of metals in order of their reactivity, with the most reactive metals at the top and the least reactive ones at the bottom.
What is the reactivity series?
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potassium
Sodium
Lithium
Calcium
Magnesium
Aluminium
Carbon
Zinc
Iron
Nickel
Tin
Lead
Hydrogen
Copper
Silver
Gold
How is metals reactivity determined?
By how easily they lose electrons - forming positive ions. Higher up reactivity series, more they easily form positive ions.
What happens when metals react eith water or acid?
The metal loses electrons and form positive ions. Higher metal up is, the more easily it reacts with water or acid.
What is the equation for the reaction between metal + water?
Metal + water ~ metal hydroxide + hydrogen
What is the equation for the reaction of acid + metal?
ACID + METAL ~ salt + hydrogen
Example:
Iron + hydrochloric acid ~ iron(II) chloride + hydrogen
How is the speed of a reaction indicated in the reaction acid + metal?
By the rate at which the bubbles of hydrogen are given off. The more reactive the metal, the faster the reaction will go.
How does magnesium react with dilute acids?
Reacts vigorously and produces loads of bubbles
How does zinc and iron react with acid?
Reacts slowly but more strongly if you heat them up
Reaction with water and reaction with dilute acid for the reactivity series
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What is an ore?
An ore is a type of rock that contains metal compounds
What is a displacement reaction?
When a more reactive metal disppaces a less resctive metal
What is oxidation and reduction?
The loss of electrons is oxidation
The gain of electrons is reduction
What does OILRIG stand for?
Oxidation is loss, reduction is gain
What is an ionic equation?
An equation that only shows the atoms and ions that change in a reaction
What will a more reactive metal do to a less reactive metal?
A MORE REACTIVE METAL WILL DISPLACE A LESS REACTIVE METAL FROM ITS COMPOUND
What will happen if you put iron in a solution of copper sulfate?
The more reactive iron will “kick out” the less reactive copper from the solution.
Iron + copper sulfate ~ iron sulfate + copper
Describe these equations: (Fe ~ Fe2+ + 2e- ) and Cu2+ + 2e- ~ Cu
The iron loses 2 electrons to become a 2+ ion - its oxidised.
The copper ion gains 2 electrons becoming a copper atom - its reduced
In displacement reactions, is it always the metal ion that gains electrons and is reduced. And is it the metal atom always loses electrons and is oxidised.
Yes, ALWAYS
Example of an ionic equation and its full equation: Mg + ZnCl2
Ionic equation: Mg + Zn2+ ~ Mg2+ + Zn
Full: Mg + ZnCl2 ~ MgCl2 + Zn
Ionic equations only show the particles that react and the products they form
Practicle for displacement reaction method
Put copper(I) sulfate solution into four of the wells in the spotting tile.
Place a strip of magnesium into the first well of liquid, zinc into the second
iron into the third, and copper into the fourth. Leave for about a minute.
Note down any changes in the table below. If there is no change, write ‘no
change.
Repeat these steps replacing the copper sulfate solution with each of the other three solutions in turn.
What is metal ore?
When there is enough of a metal compound in a rock to make it worth extracting the metal, it is called a metal ore
Whethere it is worth extracting a particular metal depends on three things:
- How easy is it to extract from its ore
- how much metal the ore contains
- the changing demands for a particular metal
Do lots of metals react with oxygen to form oxides? If so are they the ores that metals have to be extracted from often?
Yes (example of oxidation) and yes
The formation of metal ore:
Oxidation- gain of oxygen
E.g. magnesium is oxidised to make magnesium oxide
2Mg + O2 ~ 2Mg0
Extraction of metal:
Reduction - loss of oxygen
E.g. copper oxide is reduced to copper
2Cu0 + C ~ 2Cu + CO2
How is metals extracted from their ores and how?
It is extracted chemically by reduction using carbon.
The ore is reduced as oxygen is removed from it, and carbon gains oxygen so its oxidised.
What is potassium, sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium and aluminium extracted by and why?
Extracted by using electrolysis because carbon can only twke oxygen away from metals which are less reactive than carbon itself.