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Introduction
Whilst aluminium is mostly a metal, and displays many of the properties you would expect of a metal, it also has
some non-metallic character. In this experiment you will look more closely at these properties by converting some
scrap aluminium from a drinks can into aluminium sulphate (a.k.a. alum) in a process similar to that used
industrially to recover aluminium from scrap metal; this is a two step reaction involving first converting the
aluminium to aluminium hydroxide. You will then complete an analysis of both the alum and of aluminium nitrate
to show off the amphoteric properties or aluminium and its salts.
Sand-paper
Heating apparatus
Thermometer
Buchner filtration apparatus
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Analysis
Part 1:
o Write balanced equations to describe the two steps in the reaction (try to do this without resorting to
textbooks or the interweb.
Part 2:
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