When Iron is added to blue Copper (II) Sulphate, the solutions turns light green and a brown solid is precipitated.

      

When Iron is added to blue Copper (II) sulphate solution, the solution turns light green and a brown solid is precipitated.
a) Identify the type of reaction described above.
b)Explain the observations made

  

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Mercy
a)Displacement reactions
b)Iron is more reactive than copper, it therefore displaces copper ions from Copper (II) sulphate to form Iron (II) ions which are light green.Copper ions are reduced to copper metal which precipitates out.
Chiry answered the question on November 8, 2017 at 17:41


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