6. Chemical Quantities & Aqueous Reactions
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Problem 137b
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Textbook QuestionSome metals occur naturally in their elemental state while others occur as compounds in ores. Gold, for instance, is found as the free metal; mercury is obtained by heating mercury(II) sulfide ore in oxygen; and zinc is obtained by heating zinc(II) oxide ore with coke (carbon). Judging from their positions in the activity series, which of the metals sil-ver, platinum, and chromium would probably be obtained by (a) finding it in its elemental state?
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