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ACTIVITY SERIES
- comes from experiental data. It's a list of elements in order of their ACTIVITY - more active
elements are higher in the series!
Very active metals will replace
Sodium
hydrogen in acids AND in
water!
Magnesium
A sample
activity series
Aluminum
Metals more active than hydrogen
Zinc
will replace hydrogen in acids!
Iron
Lead
Hydrogen
Copper
These metals are
unreactive to most acids!
Silver
Gold