Alkali Metals

When the zinc was dropped in the hydrochloric acid, the substance began bubbling vigorously, forming a precipitate. Eventually, the zinc dissolved completely. After the lit wooden splint broke the surface of the test tube, there was a loud popping noise. The gas that was released was hydrogen from the acid and the popping noise was a result of the Hydrogen being burned up by the fire creating a small explosion. Two chemical changes occurred in this test: one with the formation of a precipitate (a textbook sign of a chemical change), and the other when the explosion

10. Ba (NO3)2, barium nitrate produces pale precipitate when put in reaction with sulfuric acid.

Acids react with reactive metals in order to make a salt. Salts are a compound formed by the neutralisation of an acid by a base, for example metal oxide. This is a result of hydrogen atoms in an acid being replaced by positive ions.

10) When HCl was added, the H⁺ ions reacted with the NH₃ to form NH₄⁺. This causes the [NH₃] to

If Ba undergoes a chemical reaction with O, and if Ca undergoes a chemical reaction with S, what can you say about all the elements that belong to these 2 different families (families from questions 5 and 6)?

Procedure: Filled each test tube with substances provided and subjected them to various conditions. These conditions included, heat, cold water, hot water, acid and basic additions and tested on litmus paper. The reactions were observed and documented at each step.

Experiments 2-1 and 2-2 study the production of hydrogen gas by different chemical reactions. By using a hydrogen gas collection apparatus and the principles of chemistry, we were able to evaluate the data and reach our goal. Experiment 2-1 uses zinc, magnesium and aluminum and how much hydrogen gas they produce to predict the volume of hydrogen gas produced for different masses of each metal. In this experiment we see that each metal has an increasing amount of hydrogen gas as mass goes up, however each metal had different amount of hydrogen gas for the same mass. Zinc produced the least amount of hydrogen gas, then increasing with magnesium, and aluminum produced the highest amount. The

b) Iron and Barium were present in unknown 3. Assigned unknown reacted with all 4 reactants and formed precipitate with 3 of them (Sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide and Sulfuric acid). During the experiment it reacted very similarly to Iron (III) nitrate and Barium nitrate. For example, with it was tested against Ammonium Chloride, the color of the solution changed to a light green, very identically to Iron (III) nitrate and Ammonium Chloride. Besides, unknown 3 formed an orange brownish precipitate when it was tested with sodium carbonate. Iron (III) nitrate acted similarly. Moreover, unknown 3 reacted similar to Barium nitrate when it was tested against ammonium chloride and sulfuric acid. It did not form any precipitate with ammonium chloride but formed a very light white precipitate, which is identical to barium nitrate’s reaction against sulfuric acid. Therefore, the two present metal in unknown 3 are Iron and barium.

c. All the formulas of the oxides formed by the alkaline earth metals and lead

I started with elemental copper metal and then reactions occur step by step as follows:

Introduction: The purpose of this lab was to find the relative solubilities of some salts of the Alkaline Earths and use that information to find the order which they appear in the periodic table; also use that information to efficiently find an unknown alkaline earth halide. Also to find the relative oxidizing powers of the Halogens given and using that information finding the order of the Halogens in the periodic table; also use that information to efficiently find an unknown Halogen.

The purpose of this experiment is to establish the most efficient way to identify an unknown alkaline earth cation and an unknown halide anion based on observations of various precipitation and redox reactions. These observations are dependant on whether or not a precipitant formed or there was a color change. Both of these indicate a reaction has taken place. The alkaline earth metals are barium, beryllium, calcium, magnesium, radium, and strontium. And the halogens are fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine.

When mixed with hydrochloric acid (appendix 4), they react violently, hence why only a small portion was allowed for this experiment. This supports the hypothesis, that is, it was predicted that such a reaction would occur as these metals are highly reactive, hence why the hydrogen gas produced was clearly visible (appendix 5). Tin is less reactive, however, according to the Metal Reactivity Series, reacts with acids at an extremely slow rate. This was evident in the experiment; however, more of a reaction would have occurred if the time frame was expanded. The metal was only left in the acid for five minutes; therefore, it had no reaction but could of, had it been left a while longer. Magnesium and Calcium are both alkaline earth metals which means that they all have an oxidation number of ‘+2’, making them highly reactive. Calcium is more reactive than Magnesium even though it is located below it on the periodic table (appendix 6) because its electron configuration is ‘2,8,8,2’ while Magnesium’s is ‘2,8,2’. This means that Calcium has more shells which, therefore, means that there is less of an attraction to the nucleus. This makes it easier for Calcium to lose electrons and react more so than Magnesium. According to the Metal Reactivity Series, in order from the most reactive to the least reactive, tin is located at around the middle of the

The main objective of this experiment is to carry out qualitative analysis to identify metal cations in unknown solution 1.

Part A.1. Sodium metal is also readily oxidized by oxygen. If the product of the reaction were dissolved in water, what would be the color of the litmus for a litmus test? Explain. What is the product?