what do you get when you mix pure iron oxide and pure aluminium?

Answer 1

You get a compound called thermite. It will burn at an extremely hot temperature, though you have to set it off with something else that burns hot, like a burning strip of magnesium metal.

To give you an example of how hot this stuff burns, let's say you have a "friend." You put a little pile of this stuff on the hood of your "friend's" car and ignite it. Now you watch as the burning thermite burns a hole through his hood, the engine block, the axle, and the pavement under his car. It's amazing stuff, really.

Answer 2

Nothing until you heat it up past the ignition point (about 1000 C)...then you get a Thermite reaction. Thermite is awesome stuff, it's great way to burn anything up or weld two pieces of rail together. Basically the iron oxide acts as the oxidizer, and the Al is the fuel. You get molten iron and clouds of lauminum oxide as the result. Don't try it at home unless you have a big sand pit to do it in, and a clean DRY clay pot for the "reactor". Once it starts, you can't put it out, though the show is usually over in about 5 seconds.

Answer 3

Since Aluminium is more likely to exist as ions than Iron, when the 2 are reacted together, Aluminium ions wil form in place of Iron ( which goes back to iron atoms). it wil be attracted to the - oxygen ion as it is + and a new compound will form, aluminium oxide! iron atoms also form, this is a common reaction in chemistry called a displacement reaction, where any metal more reactive than another metal which is in a compound swap places.

Answer 4

Sounds like this could be the thermite reaction. You will demonstrate that the aluminium is a reducing agent and reduced the iron oxide to iron

Fe2O3 + 2Al → Al2O3 + 2Fe

Andy

Answer 5

GUESS, just guess, Aluminium Oxide+ Iron. Redox Reaction.

Answer 6

you get a mixture of iron oxide and aluminium. it wont actually make a new substance unless the two elements are combined (chemically). I think a catalyst would be needed

Answer 7

Tis thermite ur better off with a packet of mintos and a bottle of coke.

You are obviously an amateur.

Come back when uve grown up

Answer 8

Thermite. Do you never watch Braniac on Sky One/Three?

Answer 9

do they mix? and is iron pure? it,s an ore.the most you can get is an alloy......legierung

Answer 10

flashpowder.