Ordering red and ox agents Prachi Patel

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Activities and Explorations: 10 points, Due Sunday April 23, 11:59 PM Ordering Reducing Agents Based Upon Lab Data (2023 version) Instructions: Upload your work on this page to Brightspace by typing or writing your responses and saving the file and uploading that file as a docx or pdf (not HEIC or pages). You can also take pictures of your written work and paste them in. Learning Objectives 18.1 Balancing Redox Reactions Identify oxidized species, reduced species, oxidizing agent and reducing agent in a redox reaction Explain observations about redox reactions in terms of spontaneity and strength of oxidizing or reducing agent Order oxidizing or reducing agent in terms of strength using information from chemical observations Instructions: Complete the following problems. Show your work for credit, not simply the answers! Imagine that you carry out the following reactions in lab and have recorded the following observations. SnCl 2 (aq) + Ni(s) NiCl 2 (aq) + Sn(s) Spontaneous Ni(NO 3 ) 2 (aq) + Fe(s) Ni(s) + Fe(NO 3 ) 2 (aq) Spontaneous Zn(NO 3 ) 2 (aq) + Fe(s) No reaction Non spontaneous 1. (2 pts.) For the first two reactions, identify what is oxidized and what is reduced. SnCl 2 is being reduced and Ni is being oxidized in the first reaction. Ni (NO 3 ) 2 is being reduced and Fe is being oxidized in the second reaction. 2. What role does the Cl ion play in the first reaction? What role does the nitrate ion play in the second? The role of Cl and nitrate ion is to be a spectator ion in first and second reaction. It just balances out the charge. It has no role, and it is a spectator ion because it does not get oxidized or reduced. 3. (2 pts.) Use the lab observations to order the oxidizing agents from weakest to strongest. Zn(NO 3 ) 2, Fe(NO 3 ) 2, Ni(NO 3 ) 2, NiCl 2, SnCl 2 4. (2 pts.) Use the lab observations to order the reducing agents from weakest to strongest. Sn, Ni, Fe, Zn
5. (2 pts.) Will SnCl 2 react with Zn (make a claim)? Justify your response using the lab observations. Yes, Fe and Zn(NO 3 ) 2 did not react and was unspontaneous so that means Zn and the Fe(NO 3 ) 2 react and it is spontaneous. If Zn and the Fe(NO 3 ) 2 react that means SnCl 2 will react with Zn because SnCl 2 is stronger oxidizing agent that Fe(NO 3 ) 2. 6. (2 pts.) Will Fe 2+ react with Sn (make a claim)? Justify your response using the lab observations. No, F e and Zn(NO 3 ) 2 did not react and was unspontaneous so that means Zn and the Fe(NO 3 ) 2 react and it is spontaneous. The Fe 2+ reacts with Zn, but it will not react with Sn because Zn is a way more stronger reducing agent than Sn.
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