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Look at his equipment.
Carlos measures the time it takes to collect 100 cm3 of hydrogen in the gas syringe.
Carlos does four experiments.
Each time he uses a different metal powder.
He makes certain the experiments are fair.
(a) Describe two ways that Carlos makes his experiments fair.
(b) Look at his results.
(i) Look at the result for iron.
How many seconds does it take to collect 100 cm3 of hydrogen?
(ii) Which metal reacts the fastest with dilute hydrochloric acid?
(c) Zinc reacts with dilute hydrochloric acid.
Zinc chloride and hydrogen are made.
Write a word equation for this reaction.
(d) Gold does not react with dilute hydrochloric acid.
Which word describes substances that are unreactive?
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