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Platinum metals (ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, osmium, palladium and platinum) and gold are very nonreactive metals; they don't react with water but a metal absolutely insensible to oxygen or acids in any conditions doesn't exist.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoIn high school science I learned a list which I think was called the 'activity series'. Any element in the series would react with a compound of an element that followed it in the series.
From memory the series was:
potassium; sodium; barium; calcium; magnesium; alumin(i)um; zinc; iron; tin; lead; hydrogen; copper; Mercury; silver; platinum; gold
I remember it so well because we were taught a mnemonic:
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Since an acid is a hydrogen compound, it follows that the metals that don't react with acid are the ones after hydrogen in this list, viz.
copper; mercury; silver; platinum; gold
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Does protactinium react with water?
Protactinium is a reactive metal; protactinium react with water vapours, acids, oxygen, halogens,etc.
Do acids react with metals to form water?
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What metals react with water and acid?
Many transition metals will react with acids to form a salt and hydrogen gas. For example, zinc will react with hydrochloric acid to form the black-colored solid zinc chloride and hydrogen. The formula is: Zn+2HCl-->ZnCl2+H2. The group 1 and 2 metals will often react with water, sometimes explosively. Sodium reacts with water to produce sodium hydroxide and hydrogen. The formula is: 2Na+2H2O-->2NaOH+H2. The reactivity series of metals (see wikipedia -Reactivity series) shows a list of the metals that react.
What are action of water on metals?
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Which type of oxide is formed when metals combine with oxygen?
Metal oxides form alkalis when they dissolve in water. Non-metal oxides for acids. For example: carbon dioxide + water --> carbonic acid magnesium oxide + water --> magnesium hydroxide
What metals react with acids not water?
For example uranium, mercury, vanadium don't react with water but can react with acids.
What metals dont react with acid oxygen or water?
A metal that does not react to acid, oxygen or water does not exist.
What reacts quickly with water and acids?
The alkali metals violently react with water and acids as Na and K.
Is reacting a metal with water the same a reacting it with oxygen?
Not all metals react with water, but some, such as metallic sodium, do react quite vigorously with water. In a sense it is true that when metals react with water it is the same as reacting with oxygen, because the water molecule (H2O) does contain oxygen, and it is the oxygen in the water molecule with which metals react. Metals do not react with the hydrogen content of the water molecule, so when metal reacts with water, hydrogen gas is produced as a byproduct. It just bubbles out of the water.
Does protactinium react with water?
Protactinium is a reactive metal; protactinium react with water vapours, acids, oxygen, halogens,etc.
What metal reacts quickly with water and acid?
Metals that react well with water: Sodium - fizzes Potassium - burns Caesium - explodes Metals that react well with acids: Magnesium
Which metals don't react with water but react with oxygen?
Beryllium is the only alkaline metal that reacts to oxygen but not to water. The hydrogen in water stabilizes the reaction.
Is Cadmium a reactive element?
Cadmium does react with oxygen, acids, and the halogens. The acids it reacts with is sulfuric acid. Cadmium does react with water.
What metal reacts with acids?
Lots of metals react with acids. It depends on exactly what acid, and the concentration of that acid. A mixture of concentrated nitric acid and hydrochloric acid (aqua regia, royal water) will react with gold and other precious metals. The alkali metals will react readily with acid, as will most metals. You have to know that any metal with incomplete orbital has the ability to react with any proton donating species. (proton donating species are acids according to Bronston-Lowry theory)
Why don't carbonic acids react with metals?
Carbonic acid does react with metals as similar to the other acids. But in nature, carbonic acid molecule is unstable. It has an equilibrium where carbonic acid dissociates into a water molecule and a carbon dioxide molecule.
Which two substances can be to compare the reactivity of metals other than acids?
Water and oxygen.
Do acids react with metals to form water?
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