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Simple Chemical Reactions

W Richards

Worthing High School

Testing for hydrogen
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“POP”
 Adding acids to metals
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If an acid is added to a (fairly reactive) metal the metal will be quickly

________ by the acid. We can see a reaction happening because the
mixture _________ and the metal eventually __________.

Some metals, like ____, are so unreactive that nothing will happen.

Words – gold, corroded, fizzes, disappear

Testing for carbon dioxide
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Gas

Limewater

Limewater turns
milky/cloudy
 Adding acid to carbonates
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Carbonates are compounds containing carbon and oxygen. When an acid is

added to a carbonate the carbonate starts to _______. A gas called
______ _______ is produced.

Carbonates used to be used as building materials but aren’t any more

because acid rain would eventually ________ the building.

Words – dissolve, fizz, carbon dioxide, oxygen

 Burning things
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When something is burned it reacts with oxygen. For example:

Magnesium + oxygen Magnesium oxide

Carbon + oxygen Carbon dioxide
Sulphur + oxygen Sulphur dioxide

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Heat
 Fuels
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Fuels are substances that can be used to release useful

amounts of energy when they burn, e.g.

Wood Oil Gas

 Burning fuels
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When fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) are burned they produce
water and carbon dioxide. We can use this apparatus to show
this:

In this example the reaction is:

Methane + oxygen Carbon dioxide + water