Reaction 3:
Burning Copper Metal in Air (Oxygen)
1.
Collect safety goggles, tongs, hardboard mat and Bunsen Burner.
2
Your teacher will give you a piece of copper ribbon. It is a reactant. The other reactant is
oxygen in the air.
3
Put on your safety goggles. Light the Bunsen and adjust to blue flame. Hold the edge of the
copper metal with the tongs and put into the flame until it ignites.
Remove the copper from the flame and hold over the hardboard mat until reaction is
complete. Put the product on the hardboard mat.
4
Reaction 3: Burning Copper metal in Air (Oxygen).
Word Equation for
whole reaction
A
Balanced symbol
Equation
Formula of reactants
from bottles and
products = M
Balanced equation = E
Observations for
reactants and products
 Name
 Colour
 state
A
Why is it a chemical
change
 2 reasons related
to the reaction
A
What type of reaction
M
Why is it this type of
reaction
 Definitions of reaction
 naming reactants
 naming products
 relate to activity series
 relate to solubility
rules
E