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Activity Series Of Metals

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The purpose of this lab was to analyze the reaction between various metals and ionic compounds to test if they follow the Activity Series of metals. For the most part, our hypothesis was that when metals and ionic compounds (sulphates) were combined, they will react according to the Activity Series of metals. In our experiment we hypothesized that when magnesium metal and copper sulphate combines, it will produce an aqueous solution of magnesium sulphate and copper metal. When zinc metal and iron sulphate are combined, an aqueous solution of zinc sulphate and iron metal is produced. When iron and tin chloride are combined, iron chloride and tin are formed. When tin is combined with copper sulphate, an aqueous solution of tin sulphate and copper …show more content…

For example, we predicted that when zinc and copper sulphate are combined, their reaction will create the product of zinc sulphate and copper. During our lab, we combined zinc sulphate and copper together and they indeed created zinc sulphate and copper. However, when we combined zinc and iron sulphate together, there was no reaction between the two chemicals. This proves that our hypothesis was mostly correct except for our prediction for zinc and iron sulphate. We predicted that zinc and iron sulphate would have a reaction and produce zinc sulphate and iron if it followed the Activity Series of Metals. From this, we can conclude that either the Activity Series of Metals is wrong or there were some errors that occurred during the process of the …show more content…

If we had a chance to change the experimental design and produce more accurate results, we would change the amount of solution that were placed on the metals by adding more drops of the solution to see if the metals needed more solution in order to have a reaction. We can also have a way to make sure that the amount of metals and solutions are always controlled since we only made vague or approximate units to measure such as “drops” or “pieces” to describe how much material we put in. We would also clean off the tweezers after getting a new piece of metal to avoid contamination or just drop the metal instead of placing it using tweezers in other experiments with other

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