Reactivity Series
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What is the order of the reactivity series?
highest reactivity to lowest: potassium, sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, carbon, zinc, iron, tin, lead, hydrogen, copper, silver, gold, platinum
What is the reactivity series?
a list that ranks metals on their reactivity from highest to lowest. It can help us understand how susceptible certain metals are to react with water and acids.
How do metals react with water?
highly reactive metals will react vigorously and produce hydrogen gas + a metal hydroxide medium reactive metals will react with water (or steam) but not as violently and hydrogen gas will be produced. a metal oxide/hydroxide may be produced as well. low reactive metals don’t react with water at all
What are some types of dilute acids?
dilute HCl, dilute H2SO4, dilute HNO3
How do metals react with dilute acids?
highly reactive metals will react explosively and produce hydrogen gas + salt middle reactive metals will react but less vigorously and maybe produce hydrogen gas and salt low reactive metals will not react at all
Do all metals in the reactivity series react with water?
many metals are too low in the series to even react with water
What are displacement reactions?
a metal will displace another metal from it’s oxide if it is lower than them in the reactivity series (as well as from their salt)