CAIE IGCSE Chemistry Transition Metal Characteristics

Practise stating transition-metal characteristics and comparing their density, melting point, strength, coloured compounds and catalytic activity with Group I.

Exam points

compare transition metals as harder, stronger, denser and higher-melting than Group I metals
recognise coloured compounds and variable oxidation states in named transition elements
identify transition elements or their compounds as catalysts in industrial or laboratory reactions

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Iron is a transition element. Potassium is a Group I element.

Transition elements are harder and stronger than Group I elements.

Describe how two other physical properties of transition elements are different from those of Group I elements.

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8.4.1—Transition elements as metals that question 1