1. The Fire Triangle What are the 3 components of the fire triangle?
Draw it on your book
Modified by MGN

2. Test for Oxygen
Oxygen relights a glowing splint

3. Oxidation vs Combustion
These two terms are often confused so what is the difference between them?
Oxidation is when a substance reacts with oxygen (from the air or water)
Combustion involves burning to get a substance to react with oxygen
Not all oxidation reactions require combustion
All combustion reactions are a type of oxidation reaction

4. Demo – Oxidation of Sodium metal
Watch…
Demo – Combustion of Sodium metal
Demo – Oxidation of Sodium metal

5. Practical: Combustion of metals
Use tongs, roaring Bunsen and heatproof mat.
Produce a table to collect information on the combustion of a variety of metals:
Appearance of metal before combustion
Appearance of metal oxide after combustion
Describe your observations
Relative order of reactivity of the metals tested
Compare your order with the Reactivity Series

6. Extension
Added by MGN

7. Can you Write word equations for the experiments you have just done
Write balanced symbol equations for the experiments you have just done