Oxidation-Reduction - Experiment 2 - Oxidation and Rust: How is rust produced?
Experiment 2
Oxidation and Rust: How is rust produced?
Purpose/Hypothesis
One of the most common oxidation reactions is the production of rust, otherwise known as corrosion. Iron readily combines with water and oxygen to form rust.
In this experiment, you will explore the process of iron oxidation, which produces rust. You will see the result of the depletion of oxygen as this element is removed from the air to combine with iron.
Do you have an educated guess about how water will affect a piece of steel wool? What might happen to a candle burning in the same container as the steel wool? That educated guess, or prediction, is your hypothesis. A hypothesisAn idea in the form of a statement that can be tested by observation and/or experiment should explain these things:
- the topic of the experiment ...
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