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AIM-.. PROJECT

STUDY OF
EFFECT OF
METAL
COUPLING ON
RUSTNG OF
IRON
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INDEX --- PROJECT
1.CeRTJFICATe
2. ACKNOWLEDGeMENT
3. OBJeeTIVe
4.JNTRODUCTION
5. MATeRIAL AND
eQuIPMeNTS
6. PROCeDuRe
7. CONusION

8. BIBLIOGRAOHy
 CERTIFICATE --

This is to certify that the project titled

"study of effect of metal coupling on
rusting of iron"was completed under my
guidance and supervision by Ankit
Choudhary a student of class ji-sci
kendriya vidyalaya no. 44
,within the stipulated time as prescribed
by chse

Mas. P. DXT Mos. R, MAHAVAR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT-
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I gratefuly acknowledge my
sincere thanks to our chemistry
teacher MRS. R. MAHAVAR
for her remarkable, aluable
guidance throughout this project
work.

ANKIT CHDUDHARY
XII-B
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OBJECTIVE PROJECT
The goal of this project is to
investigate the effect of metal
coupling on rusting of iron.
We will have to study the change
in rusting of iron when an iron
nail is when an iron nail is
coupled withmetals more
electronegative than iron and
metals which are less
electropositive than iron.
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INTRODUCTION - PROJECT
Metals and alloy undergoes rusting and
corrosion. The process by which some meals
when exposed toatmospheric conditions ie,
moist ai, carbon dioxjde, on the surface is
known as coorosion. The compounds
formed are usually Oxides. Rusting is also
a typeof coorosion but the term is
restricted to iron or products made from it.
Iron is easily prone
rusting making its surface rough.
Chemically, rust is a hydrated ferricoxide
Fe203.nH20. Rusting may be explained by
an electrochemical
mechanism. In the presence of moist air
containing dissolved oxygen or carbon
dioxide, the commercialiron behaves as
if composedof small electrical cells,At
anode of cell, iron passes in to solution as
ferrous ions.
 Fe’ Fe(2-) +2e
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Theelectrons from the above reaction move
towards the cathode andform hiydroxy/
ons
H20 + (O) + 2e.20H(-)
Under the influence of dissolved o)gen
the ferrous ions and hydroxyl ions interact
from rust,i.e., hydrated ferric oxide.
2Fe2+ +H20 +(0)’ 2Fe3+ + 20H
2Fes+ +60H. FezO3.3H20
(rust) or 2Fe(OH)3

If supply of oxygen is Eimited the corrosion

product may be blackanhydrous magnetite,
Fes04.
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Methads of preventing
COrrosion -
Some of the methods used toprevent corrosion
are discussed here :
1.Barrier Protection. In this method, a
barrier film is introduced between iron surface
and atmospheric air.The film is obtained by
painting, varnisking etc.
2.Galvanization. The metallic iron isn
covered by a layer of more active metal
such as zinc.The active metal loses
electrons in preference to iron
Zn > Zn2+ + 2e
Thus, protecting iron from rusting and
corrosion.
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and Equipments
Twopetridishes
Four test-tubes
Four iron nails
Beaker
A Sand paper
A Wire gauge
A Gelatin
A Copper, Zinc and Magnesium
strips
A Potassium ferricyanide solution
A Phenolphthalein
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Experimental PROJECT
Procedure
> Clean the surface of ironnails with
the help of sand paper. Wash them
with carbon tetrachloride and dry
on filterpaper.
Wind aclean zinc strip around one nail, a
clean copper wire around the second and clean
magnesium strip around the third nail. Put all
these three and the fourth nail in Petri dishes so
that they are not in contact with each other.
Preperation of Agar-Agar
Solution. Heat about three gram of agar
agar in 100 mlof water taken in a beaker until
solution becomes clear.At about 1 mlof0. 1 M
potassium ferri-cyanide solution, 1 mlof
phenofphthalein solution and stirwell the
contents.

Fill the petridishes uwith hot agar agar

solution in such a way that ony lower halfof
the nails are covered with the liquids.
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Observation -- PROJECT
Nail rusts or not
S.no Meatl pair

1. JronAluminium Docs not rusts

2. Jron-Zinc Does not usts
3. Jron-Magnessium Does not rusts
4 Jron-Cooper Nail vusts

Result and Interence The

experiment performed on coupling has shown

that rusts can be avoided by coupling of iron
with more electropositive metal. In this
experiment zinc was more electropositive, so it
is oxidised leaving iron nail safe. In this way
equipments of sevral crores RS (? ).can be
saved from rusting
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