Year 9 Science 9.4 The Reactivity Series

Year 9 Science 9.4 The Reactivity Series

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Starter: Can you arrange the following metals in the decreasing order of their reactivity with oxygen ,water and acids?

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Can you come up with your own rhyme to remember the reactivity series?

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Task One:

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Which metals corrode quickly and which corrode slowly?

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What methods could you use to prevent things rusting?

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Why Magnesium and zinc are used to protect iron or steel by sacrificial protection?

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According to the reactivity series, aluminium should be a fairly reactive metal, but in reality it does not corrode. Why?

Let's go back to the PowerPoint to check our understanding

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