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If the zinc salt is soluble and the analogous silver salt is not, silver will displace the zinc as the silver salt precipitates out. For example, zinc chloride is soluble, but the solubility of silver chloride is very low. If silver nitrate is added to a zinc chloride solution, silver chloride will precipitate out, leaving zinc nitrate in solution.
copper+nitric acid > copper nitrate+hydrogen copper+sulpuric acid> copper sulphate+ hydrogen copper+potassium chloride> copper chloride+ hydrogen copper+ zinc carbonate (powder metal) > copper+ zinc + water + carbon dioxide zinc+nitric acid > zinc nitrate+ hydrogen etc just replace the copper in the above equations with 'zinc' for all the zinc solutions x
zinc
Zn + FeCl2 ------> ZnCl2 + Fe (for Iron(II) ) or 3Zn + 2FeCl3 ------> 3ZnCl2 + 2Fe (for Iron(III) )
no it does not because it forms a production of gas
Zinc is used to precipitate gold from gold cyanide. Zinc will react to form zinc cyanide.
No. Ions do not precipitate on their own. Since zinc is more reactive that copper it will replace copper. So placing zinc in a solution of a copper salt will cause elemental copper to precipitate.
Sodium chloride solution with zinc carbonate precipitate.
How the @#$% should I know?!?!
If the zinc salt is soluble and the analogous silver salt is not, silver will displace the zinc as the silver salt precipitates out. For example, zinc chloride is soluble, but the solubility of silver chloride is very low. If silver nitrate is added to a zinc chloride solution, silver chloride will precipitate out, leaving zinc nitrate in solution.
copper+nitric acid > copper nitrate+hydrogen copper+sulpuric acid> copper sulphate+ hydrogen copper+potassium chloride> copper chloride+ hydrogen copper+ zinc carbonate (powder metal) > copper+ zinc + water + carbon dioxide zinc+nitric acid > zinc nitrate+ hydrogen etc just replace the copper in the above equations with 'zinc' for all the zinc solutions x
The two do not react. Zinc is more active than copper and thus copper can not displace zinc.
zinc
Zinc is found with copper and is also found with gold and nickel.
ZnCl2 and Cu
Zn + FeCl2 ------> ZnCl2 + Fe (for Iron(II) ) or 3Zn + 2FeCl3 ------> 3ZnCl2 + 2Fe (for Iron(III) )