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Understanding Activity Series: Predicting Chemical Reactions and Product Formation

The activity series ranks elements based on their reactivity level, with highly reactive elements capable of displacing less reactive ones in chemical reactions. This series helps predict whether a reaction will occur and assists in identifying products formed. For metals, higher activity means easier loss of electrons to create positive ions, while for nonmetals, it indicates a tendency to gain electrons. Practical examples illustrate how to use this series in reactions involving elements like aluminum and zinc or cobalt and sodium.

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Understanding Activity Series: Predicting Chemical Reactions and Product Formation

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  1. Identifying Reactions and Predicting Products

  2. Identifying Reactions and Predicting Products

  3. Identifying Reactions and Predicting Products

  4. Identifying Reactions and Predicting Products

  5. Activity Series of the Elements • The ability of an element to react is referred to as the element’s activity. • The more readily an element reacts with other substances, the greater its activity is. • An activity seriesis a list of elements organized according to the ease with which the elements undergo certain chemical reactions • For metals, greater activity means a greater ease of loss of electrons, to form positive ions. • For nonmetals, greater activity means a greater ease of gain of electrons, to form negative ions.

  6. Activity Series of the Elements • The order in which the elements are listed is usually determined by single-displacement reactions. • The most-active element is placed at the top in the series. • It can replace each of the elements below it from a compound in a single-displacement reaction. • Activity series are used to help predict whether certain chemical reactions will occur. • Activity series are based on experiment.

  7. Activity Series of the Elements

  8. Activity Series of the Elements Click below to watch the Visual Concept. Visual Concept

  9. Example According to the activity series for metals, aluminum replaces zinc. Therefore we could predict that the following reaction does occur. 2 Al (s) + 3 ZnCl2 (aq)  3 Zn (s) + 2 AlCl3 (aq) Cobalt, however, cannot replace sodium. Therefore we write the following. Co (s) + 2 NaCl (aq)  no reaction

  10. Practice • Using the activity series will these reactions occur? If the reaction will occur, write the products and balance the equation. MgCl2 (aq) + Zn (s)  Al (s) + H20  Cd (s) + O2 (g)  I2 (s) + KF (g) 

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