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March 2003
At Miramar, we studied single-displacement reactions.
For example, when you put a piece of iron metal in copper (II) sulfate
solution, the copper comes out of the solution and plates out as copper
metal on the iron. Some of the iron dissolves into the solution too. Because
iron favors being dissolved in the solution more than copper does, we
call the iron a more "active" metal than copper.
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