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What pH range do acids have?

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From below 7 (red)

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What range does the pH scale have?

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From below 0 to above 14

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What pH range do alkali’s have?

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More than 7 (blue)

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What pH does water and other neutral substances have??

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pH 7 (green)

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What type of solution do non-metal oxides produce when dissolved in water?

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Acid solutions

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What type of solution do metal oxides and hydroxides produce when dissolved in water?

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Alkaline solutions

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What does ammonia dissolve in water to produce?

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An alkali

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Where can acids and alkalis be commonly used?

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At home and in the laboratory

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What solutions have the concentration of hydrogen ions equal to the concentration of hydroxide ions?

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Water and other neutral solutions

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What ions does an acidic solution contain?

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More hydrogen ions than hydroxide ions

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Which ions does an alkaline solution contain?

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More hydroxide ions than hydrogen ions

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How is the effect of dilution on the pH of an acid/alkali explained?

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In terms of the decreasing concentration of hydrogen and hydroxide ions

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Which solutions have an equilibrium between hydrogen and hydroxide ions?

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Water and aqueous solutions

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What happens when a reversible reaction is in equilibrium?

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The concentrations of reactants and products remain constant although not necessarily equal

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How is the concentration of a solution expressed?

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Mol dm-3

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Moles, concentration and volume can be found out from what??

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M
V C
The triangle

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What happens to strong acids in aqueous solutions? (In terms of dissolving and ionising)

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They are completely dissolved and completely ionised

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What happens to weak acids in aqueous solutions? (In terms of dissolving and ionising)

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They are only partially dissolved and are only partially ionised

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What are examples of strong acids? (3)

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Hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, and nitric acid

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What is an example of a weak acid?

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Ethanoic acid

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What do equimolar solutions of strong and weak acids/bases differ in?

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pH, conductivity, rate of reaction

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What’s an example of a strong BASE? (Type of solution)

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Solutions of metal hydroxides

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what’s a weak BASE?

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Ammonia solution

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What is neutralisation?

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The reaction of acids with bases

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What are examples of bases? (3)

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Metal oxides, metal hydroxides, metal carbonates

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Where does neutralisation move pH of an acid and an alkali?

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Acid move up to 7, alkali moves down

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What forms when a base dissolves in water?

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Alkalis

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What happens in a reaction of an acid and an alkali?

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Hydrogen and hydroxide ions form water

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What happens in the reaction of an acid with a metal oxide?

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The hydrogen and oxide ions form water

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What happens in a reaction of an acid with a metal carbonate?

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The hydrogen and carbonate ions form water and carbon dioxide

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What is given off when an acid reacts with some metals?

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Hydrogen gas

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What are every day examples of neutralisation?

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The treatment of acid indigestion

And using Lime to reduce acidity in soil and lochs

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What happens to hydrogen when it is formed in a reaction?

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Hydrogen ions form hydrogen molecules

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33
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What is the test for hydrogen?

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Burns with a pop

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34
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How is sulphur dioxide produced?

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By the burning of fossil fuels

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35
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How is nitrogen dioxide produced?

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By the sparking of air in car engines

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36
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How is acid rain made?

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When sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide dissolves in water in the atmosphere

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What does acid rain have a damaging effect on?

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Buildings made from carbonate rock
Structures made of iron/steel
Plant/animal life

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How can the concentration of acids/alkalis be calculated?

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From the results of volumetric titrations

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What is a salt?

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A compound in which the hydrogen ions of an acid have been replaced by metal ions (or ammonium ions)

40
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How are salts formed?

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In the reaction if acids with bases or metals

41
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What salt does hydrochloric acid form?

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Chloride salts

42
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What does sulphuric acid form?

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Sulphate salts

43
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What does nitric acid form?

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Nitrate salts

44
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Which nitrogen salts are made by neutralisation reactions for use as fertilisers? (3 of them)

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Ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulphate and potassium nitrate (these salts are soluble in water)

45
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In preparation of a salt what is easier to use as a base?

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An insoluble metal carbonate or metal oxide

46
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What happens in precipitation?

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Two solutions react together to form an insoluble product called precipitate

47
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What can be formed from precipitation?

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Insoluble salts

48
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Which reactions can spectator ions be identified in?

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Neutralisation and precipitation (the equation can be written omitting these ions)

49
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How is a cell that makes electricity produced?

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By connecting different metals together with an electrolyte

50
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What does sulphuric acid form?

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Sulphate salts

51
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What does nitric acid form?

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Nitrate salts

52
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Which nitrogen salts are made by neutralisation reactions for use as fertilisers? (3 of them)

A

Ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulphate and potassium nitrate (these salts are soluble in water)

53
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In preparation of a salt what is easier to use as a base?

A

An insoluble metal carbonate or metal oxide

54
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What happens in precipitation?

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Two solutions react together to form an insoluble product called precipitate

55
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What can be formed from precipitation?

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Insoluble salts

56
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Which reactions can spectator ions be identified in?

A

Neutralisation and precipitation (the equation can be written omitting these ions)

57
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How is a cell that makes electricity produced?

A

By connecting different metals together with an electrolyte

58
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What is corrosion?

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A chemical reaction which involves the surface of a metal changing from an element to a compound

59
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Do different metals corrode at different rates or the same rate?

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Different rates

60
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What does the term rusting apply to?

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The corrosion of iron

61
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What from the air is required for rusting? (2)

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Water and oxygen

62
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What initially happens when iron rusts?

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The iron loses 2 electrons to form iron(II) ions

63
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How does iron (II) ions change to iron (III) ions

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Oxidation

64
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How are hydride ions formed by electrons lost by the iron during rusting?

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By the electrons being accepted by the water and oxygen

65
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What leads to the electro chemical series?

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The variation in voltage between different pairs of metals

66
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When do displacement reactions take place?

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When a metal is added to a solution containing ions of a metal lower in the electro chemical series

67
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What can be established from the reaction of metals with acids?

A

The position of hydrogen in the electrochemical series

68
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How can electricity be produced in a cell?

A

By connecting two different metals in w solution of their metal ions

69
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When at least one of the half-cells doesn’t involve metal atoms, can electricity be produced?

A

Ye bro

70
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Where do electrons flow?

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In the external circuit from the species higher in the electrochemical series to the one lower in the electrochemical series

71
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What’s the purpose of the iron bridge (salt bridge)

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To allow the movement of ions to complete the circuit

72
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What’s oxidation?

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Loss of electrons by a reactant in any reaction

73
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What’s reduction?

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Gain or electrons by a reactant in any reaction

74
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What’s an example of oxidation?

A

A metal element reacting to form a compound

75
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What’s an example of reduction?

A

A compound reacting to form a metal

76
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What happens in a redox reaction?

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Reduction and oxidation go on together

77
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What can be written for for oxidation and reduction reactions?

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Ion-electron equations

78
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What can ion-electron equations be combined to produce?

A

Redox equations

79
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What happens during electrolysis? (Oilrig)

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Oxidation occurs at the positive electrode and reduction occurs at the negative electrode

80
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What reacts with oxygen, water and dilute acid?

A

Metals

81
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What gives an indication of the reactivity of metals?

A

Differences in the reaction rates

82
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What are ores?

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Naturally occurring compounds of metals

83
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Which metals can be found Uncombined in the earths crust?

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The less reactive metals eg gold, silver, copper

84
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Which metals have to be extracted from their ores?

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More reactive metals eg lithium, iron

85
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How are most metals extracted from their ores? (Except the most reactive)

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With heat, some heat alone, others heated with other substances eg C, CO2

86
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How is iron extracted from its ore?

A

Produced in a blast furnace

87
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Which are the two key reactions which take place in a blast furnace?

A

Production of carbon monoxide and reduction of iron oxide

88
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How are the more reactive metals obtained from their ores?

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Electrolysis

89
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What does acid rain do?

A

Increases the rate of corrosion

90
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What increases the corrosion on car bodyworks?

A

Salt spread on the roads

91
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What does electrons flowing to the iron prevent?

A

Rusting

92
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When does iron not rust?

A

When attached to the negative terminal of a battery

93
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When are anti-corrosion methods used?

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In everyday situations

94
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What can galvanising and the use of scrap magnesium can result in what?

A

Electrons flowing to the iron giving sacrificial protection

95
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What happened when iron is attached to metals higher in the electrochemical series?

A

Electrons flow TO the iron

96
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What happened when iron is attached to metals lower in the electrochemical series?

A

Electrons flow FROM the iron

97
Q

Which ways can provide physical protection to iron by giving a surface barrier to air and water?

A 
Painting
Greasing
Electroplating 
Galvanising 
Tin-plating
Coating with plastic
98
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What does scratching the tinplate increase? (Iron)

A

The rate of rusting of iron!

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