In the given chemical reaction iron is less electropositive metal and aluminum is more electropositive and behave as a reducing agent also.
<h3>What is electropositivity?</h3>
Electropositivity is the ability of an atom of donation or losing of electrons easily.
From the given chemical reaction it is clear that oxidation state of iron changes from +3 to 0 & of aluminum is from 0 to +3. So in the above chemical reaction aluminum is more electropositive than iron metal. And aluminum is behave as a reducing agent as it helps in the reduction process by providing electrons.
Hence aluminum is electropositive metal and reducing agent, iron is less electropositive.
In this case, according to this equilibrium temperature problem, we can set up the following equation to relate the mass, specific heat and temperature change:
Thus, we solve for the mass of cobalt as shown below:
The correct answer would be the second option. When the gibbs free energy of a system is negative and the electromotive force (EMF) of the system is positive then the reaction is to occur readily without any input of energy. With this, the reaction is said to be spontaneous. The higher the value of the EMF of a cell then it means the driving force for the reaction to occur is also high.