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Type of Activity | : | group |
Audience | : |   |
Age Group | : | 11 to 16 years |
Keywords | : | rust, oxidation, iron |
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Classic Chemistry Experiments : How much air is used up during rusting?
This experiment illustrates how much of the air is used in the rusting process. It is the
oxygen component of air which reacts in the rusting process...
Type of Activity | : | group |
Audience | : | |
Age Group | : | 7 to 16 years |
Chemistry for Non-Specialists Course Book: Extraction of iron on a match head
Students reduce iron(III) oxide with carbon on a match head to produce iron in this smallscale example of metal extraction. The experiment can be used...
Type of Activity | : | group |
Audience | : | |
Age Group | : | 11 to 18 years |
Chemistry for Non-Specialists Course Book: The thermite reaction
This demonstration shows the highly exothermic reaction between aluminium and iron(III)oxide that produces molten iron. This is a competition reaction...
Type of Activity | : | group |
Audience | : | |
Age Group | : | 14 to 18 years |
Chemistry for Non-Specialists Course Book: Halogen reactions with iron
In this demonstration experiment, iron wool is heated in the presence of chlorine gas andthe vapours of bromine and iodine. Exothermic redox reactions...
Type of Activity | : | group |
Audience | : | |
Age Group | : | 14 to 18 years |
Classic Chemistry Experiments : The reduction of iron oxide by carbon
Metals high in the reactivity series will reduce the oxides of those lower in the series.
The oxides of metals between zinc and copper in the reactiv...
Type of Activity | : | group |
Audience | : | |
Age Group | : | 11 to 16 years |