reactions of metals

  1. What is produced when a metal reacts with an acid?
    A salt + hydrogen
  2. What is produced when an alkali metal reacts with water?
    A metal hydroxide + hydrogen
  3. What is produced when a metal (not alkali metal) reacts with water?
    metal oxide + hydrogen
  4. What is produced when a metal reacts with oxygen?
    Metal oxide
  5. Name the metals in order of descending reactivity
    • Potassium, sodium, calcium,
    • magnesium, aluminium, zinc,
    • iron, lead, copper, silver, gold
  6. What type of salt does hydrochloric acid produce?
    chloride
  7. What type of salt does sulfuric acid produce?
    sulfates
  8. What type of salt does nitric acid produce?
    nitrates
  9. What is the formula for hydrochloric acid?
    HCl
  10. What is the formula for sulfuric acid?
  11. What is the formula for nitric acid?
  12. Name 3 alkali metals
    Lithium, sodium, potassium
  13. What is the formula for lithium hydroxide?
    LiOH
  14. What is the formula for copper sulfate?
  15. What gas is produced when sodium reacts with water?
    hydrogen
  16. What gas relights a glowing splint?
    oxygen
  17. What is the test for oxygen?
    It relights a glowing splint
  18. What is the test for hydrogen?
    It gives a squeaky pop when a lit splint is inserted
  19. What gas does the squeaky pop test for?
    hydrogen
  20. What is a displacement reaction?
    When a more reactive metal pushes out a less reactive metal from a compound
  21. What is an element?
    A substance containing only 1 type of atom
  22. What is a compound?
    A substance containing two or more types of atoms that are chemically joined
  23. What is a mixture?
    A substance containing two or more types of atoms that are not chemically joined (and can therefore be separated from each other)
  24. What is combustion?
    Burning (and reacting with oxygen)
  25. What properties do metals have?
    • Good conductors of heat and electricity
    • Strong
    • Ductile
    • Malleable
    • Shiny
  26. What are reactants?
    The chemicals that react together in a chemical reaction
  27. What are products?
    The chemicals that are produced in a chemical reaction
  28. What does the → mean in a word equation
    "combine to make"
  29. What is the formula for carbon dioxide?
  30. What group of the periodic table contains the alkali metals?
    One
  31. What is the rhyme for remembering the reactivity series?
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  32. What is  



    the formula for?
    • calcium chloride
  33. What is the formula for sodium hydroxide?
    NaOH
  34. What is the formula for magnesium oxide?
    MgO
  35. What is the formula for sodium chloride?
    • NaCl
  36. What is the formula for copper sulfate?
    • CuSO4
  37. What is the formula for copper oxide?
    CuO
  38. What is the formula for hydrogen gas?
    H2

    (as hydrogen forms molecules each containing two hydrogen atoms)
  39. What is the formula for oxygen gas?
    • O2
  40. What is the formula for carbon diodixe?
    CO2
  41. What is the formula for carbon monoxide?
    CO
  42. What is the formula for magnesium sulfate?
    MgSO4
  43. What is the formula for copper chloride?
    • CuCl2
  44. What is the formula for lithium bromide?
    • LiBr
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AHutson
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reactions of metals
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Y9 reactions of metals
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