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experiment Zn in FeSO4 solution

Take a strip of cleaned zinc metal  and cut it into suitable size .Add two pieces into a beaker containing FeSOsolution .Keep the beaker undisturbed for one hour .The green colour of ferrous sulphate solution disappears .We can see that iron metal is  settling  down at the bottom of the beaker .That is Zn displace Fe from FeSO4 solution .The reaction can be written as 

Zn    + FeSO4     _________>    ZnSO4     +   Fe


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