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Types of Chemical Reactions Lab Sheet
You are expected to fill the following tables as you perform the reaction described, the First table is
given to you as an example
Procedures:
1. Cut a 10 cm strip of Magnesium metal
2. Burn the Magnesium strip in the Bunsen flame.
3. Observe what happens
Observation:
The strip burns in air producing a bright white light, a white powder remains
Reactants
Word Equation
Magnesium + Oxygen
Skeleton Equation
Mg (s) + O2 (g)
Compare the number of atoms on
both sides “Reactants and
Products”
Balanced skeleton equation
1 Mg 2O
Products
Magnesium Oxide
MgO (s)
1Mg 1O
2Mg (s) + O2 (g)
2 MgO (s)
Evidence of a chemical Reaction
Shown
Heat Released, The metal turns into a white powder
Type of Reaction
Synthesis " Because 2 elements combined to form a new substance
Reaction 1
Procedures:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Place one spoon of iron filling in a crucible.
Check the magnetic property of the filling.
Add one spoon of Sulfur to the crucible.
Heat the crucible on a Bunsen burner, observe what happens.
Check the magnetic properties of the product, what do you notice
Observation:
Reactants
Word Equation
Skeleton Equation
Compare the number of atoms on
both sides “Reactants and
Products”
Balanced skeleton equation
Evidence of a chemical Reaction
Shown
Type of Reaction
Iron + Sulfur
Products
Iron (II) sulfide
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Reaction 2
Procedures:

Use the Bunsen burner to heat the copper carbonate gently at first and then more
strongly.

Record your observations but remove the delivery tube from the limewater as soon
as the heat is stopped to

prevent limewater rising up the delivery tube.
Observation:
Reactants
Word Equation
Copper Carbonate
Products
Copper Oxide + Carbon dioxide
Skeleton Equation
Compare the number of
atoms on both sides
“Reactants and
Products”
Balanced skeleton
equation
Evidence of a chemical
Reaction Shown
Type of Reaction

Propose whether the mass of the substance left in the test-tube after heating would be greater or less
than the mass of copper carbonate put into the test-tube originally
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Reaction 3
Procedures:
1. Prepare an aqueous solution of Copper Chloride by dissolving 3 spoons of
copper chloride in 100 ml water in a glass beaker.
2. Place a zinc strip inside the solution, leave it aside for 5 minutes, what do you
notice?
Observation:
Reactants
Word Equation
Zinc + Copper Chloride
Products
Zinc Chloride + Copper
Skeleton Equation
Compare the number of
atoms on both sides
“Reactants and Products”
Balanced skeleton
equation
Evidence of a chemical
Reaction Shown
Type of Reaction
Reaction 4
Procedures:
1. Prepare an aqueous solution of silver nitrate by dissolving one spoon in 2o ml
distilled water in a test tube.
2. Prepare an aqueous solution of sodium chloride solution.
3. Add the first solution to the second, observe what happens
Observation:
Reactants
Word Equation
Skeleton Equation
Compare the number of
atoms on both sides
“Reactants and
Products”
Balanced skeleton
equation
Evidence of a chemical
Reaction Shown
Type of Reaction
Sodium chloride + silver nitrate
Products
Silver chloride + sodium nitrate
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Procedures:
Observation:
Reactants
Products
Reactants
Products
Word Equation
Skeleton Equation
Compare the number of
atoms on both sides
“Reactants and
Products”
Balanced skeleton
equation
Type of Reaction
Procedures:
Observation:
Word Equation
Skeleton Equation
Compare the number of
atoms on both sides
“Reactants and
Products”
Balanced skeleton
equation
Type of Reaction
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Science Department
Procedures:
Observation:
Reactants
Products
Reactants
Products
Word Equation
Skeleton Equation
Compare the number of
atoms on both sides
“Reactants and
Products”
Balanced skeleton
equation
Type of Reaction
Procedures:
Observation:
Word Equation
Skeleton Equation
Compare the number of
atoms on both sides
“Reactants and
Products”
Balanced skeleton
equation
Type of Reaction
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Science Department
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