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The thermite reaction which is the reaction of aluminium and iron oxide is used to make iron and because aluminium has much stronger bonds to oxygen than iron that the reaction produces an enormous amount of heat and you can use this for welding pieces of metals together. So this is a thermite mixture, it is a mixture of iron oxide and aluminium powder and we are going to do some redox chemistry and we are going to generate some molten iron which will hopefully stream from the bottom of the flower pot. So here you can see the black particles of the iron oxide and the silver particles are the aluminium powder. So we get some heat on this and we start an instantaneous redox reaction so the aluminium and the iron oxide swap oxygens so the aluminium will beco...
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The thermite reaction which is the reaction of aluminium and iron oxide is used to make iron and because aluminium has much stronger bonds to oxygen than iron that the reaction produces an enormous amount of heat and you can use this for welding pieces of metals together. So this is a thermite mixture, it is a mixture of iron oxide and aluminium powder and we are going to do some redox chemistry and we are going to generate some molten iron which will hopefully stream from the bottom of the flower pot. So here you can see the black particles of the iron oxide and the silver particles are the aluminium powder. So we get some heat on this and we start an instantaneous redox reaction so the aluminium and the iron oxide swap oxygens so the aluminium will beco...
