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This document describes a redox reaction experiment using an iron nail and copper (II) chloride solution. When the iron nail was added to the blue CuCl2 solution, the solution turned light green and the nail rusted and broke into small brown particles. This showed that copper was deposited on the iron by oxidation-reduction, where iron was oxidized by losing electrons to copper ions which were reduced by gaining electrons. The overall reaction was identified as Fe + CuCl2 → FeCl2 + Cu, showing iron was oxid

Author
Matt Natividad
Language
EN