Equipment: Test tubes Test tube rack Iron nails Anhydrous calcium chloride (removes the moisture from

ure from the air!) Vaseline Salt water Tap water Bungs

Aim- to investigate what happens when metals react with liquids make rust.

Things to keep the test fair The same amount and mass of the metal. Test tubes need to be all the same size. Original Just Tap water Iron nails

Control Change the Tap water to one of the other substances. Change the iron nails into the bungs. Adding Vaseline to the metal.

1. First of all put on a pair of overalls, and goggles for safety and make sure that your hair is tied back. Then get your equipment. 2. Using the test tubes having putted them into the test tube rack, fill them up with Tap water. 3. Drop the iron nails, and see if anything happens. 4. After do the same, but try the anhydrous calcium chloride. Keep the iron nails. Go through all of the substances doing the same process, keeping the iron nails. 5. Now changing the metal into bungs, take out the Iron nails. Using all different substances, test them on the bungs. 6. Make sure you time how long the rusting goes on for. 7. Also have a go at adding Vaseline on the metals. 8. Put or your equipment away and pack up.

Metal:

Substance

Amount of Time:

Chemical changes?

What was it?

My prediction: When moisture from the air, or from anywhere else, reaches an object with iron in it, oxygen in the water combines with atoms of iron to form molecules of a compound called iron oxide. The iron oxide particles remain suspended in the water, but when the water evaporates, the particles remain, forming a reddish coating on the surface of the iron. Without the presence of water, objects cannot rust. Because of this, I believe that the anhydrous calcium chloride will be quite successful from removing the ability of the metals to rust. I think that the water and any substance which had moisture in it will cause the metal to rust.