Chemical Properties of Metals
Chemical Properties of Metals: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Reactions of Metals with Water, Burning of Metals in Air, Burning of Copper in Air, Burning of Aluminium in Air, Anodising of Aluminium, Burning of Sodium in Air, Burning of Potassium in Air, Amphoteric Oxides, etc.
Important Questions on Chemical Properties of Metals
Most metal oxides are insoluble in water but some of these dissolve in water to form acids.

Metals like potassium and _____ react violently with cold water.

Give a chemical reaction between sodium oxide and water.

Give a chemical reaction between potassium oxide and water.

The product of neutralisation of aluminium oxide and hydrochloric acid are _____ and water.

Explain the reaction between aluminium oxide and hydrochloric acid.

Write a balanced chemical equation for the following word equation:
Aluminium oxide Hydrochloric acid Aluminium chloride Water.

Give the metal displacement reaction between zinc and copper sulphate.

Write the chemical reaction between aluminium metal and manganese dioxide.

What are metal salts and explain how aluminium reacts with the metal salt, manganese dioxide?

The reaction of metal with metal salt solution involves which type of reaction mechanism?

What happens when metals react with solutions of other metal salts?

Write the oxidation reaction involved in the reaction between platinum and aqua regia.

Why do noble metals like platinum dissolve in aqua regia?

Explain the dissolution of platinum in aqua regia.

Aqua regia reacts with platinum to yield


Which of the following pairs will give displacement reactions?

The student decides to test the fertilizers that she has made. She decides to put some of each fertilizer (potassium nitrate, magnesium sulphate and calcium sulphate) on a separate area of grass and measures how much the grass grows in a week.
Suggest how she might present her results.

Explain why adding magnesium metal to calcium sulphate would not displace the calcium.
