Different metals react in different ways with water, oxygen and acids. The difference in reactivities can lead us to create a reactivity series of metals from the most reactive to the least reactive.

In this topic you need to know about the following: -

  • How metals lose electrons when they react.
  • How the reactivity series can allow us to determine how to extract metals from their ores.
  • What displacement reactions are.
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