Students use the reactivity series to predict how metals react with water and dilute acids and whether a displacement reaction will happen, writing word and balanced equations such as Zn + CuSO₄ → ZnSO₄ + Cu. They deduce the order of unknown metals from experimental results, explain the thermite reaction and the extraction of iron with carbon, and calculate the mass of metal in an ore.
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10th Grade students (typically ages 15–16) working on mixtures & chemical reactions. It is pitched at level 3 · challenge.
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A more reactive metal displaces a less reactive one from its compound, never the other way around.
The reactivity series lists metals from most to least reactive: potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, aluminum, (carbon), zinc, iron, (hydrogen), copper, silver, gold. Carbon and hydrogen are non-metals included for comparison.
Metals above hydrogen react with dilute acids: metal + acid → salt + hydrogen. The most reactive metals also react with cold water: metal + water → metal hydroxide + hydrogen.
A more reactive metal will displace (push out) a less reactive metal from a solution of its compound. For example: magnesium + copper(II) sulfate → magnesium sulfate + copper. If the free metal is less reactive, there is no reaction.
Four metals, W, X, Y and Z, were each placed in solutions of the others' salts (✓ = reaction, ✗ = no reaction).
Metal W: with salt of X ✗, salt of Y ✓, salt of Z ✗ · Metal X: with salt of W ✓, salt of Y ✓, salt of Z ✗ · Metal Y: with salt of W ✗, salt of X ✗, salt of Z ✗ · Metal Z: with salt of W ✓, salt of X ✓, salt of Y ✓
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