YOUCHEMISTRY: Beautiful reaction between bromine and aluminium

15 Mar 2011

Beautiful reaction between bromine and aluminium

This is a REDOX reaction followed by an ACID-BASE one


2 Al + 3 Br2 (red liquid) = 2 AlBr3

AlBr3 + 3 H2O (from air) = Al(OH)3 + 3 HBr (red gas)

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