Class 10 Chemistry simulations · Metals and Non-metals

Reactivity series: displacement reactions

Dip a metal strip into a salt solution. A more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from its salt.

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What to notice

Zinc in copper sulphate gets a brown copper coating and the blue colour fades; copper in silver nitrate turns the solution blue.

Key relation

K > Na > Ca > Mg > Al > Zn > Fe > Pb > [H] > Cu > Ag > Au

Try this

Put copper in iron sulphate. Then iron in copper sulphate. Explain the difference.

What you can change

• Metal strip: choose Potassium (K), Sodium (Na), Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), Aluminium (Al), Zinc (Zn), Iron (Fe), Lead (Pb), …
• Salt solution: choose Copper sulphate (CuSO₄), Iron(II) sulphate (FeSO₄), Zinc sulphate (ZnSO₄), Silver nitrate (AgNO₃), Magnesium sulphate (MgSO₄)

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• Electronic configuration (Aufbau, Pauli, Hund)
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