Question

What do you think would happen to your products, if one of your reactants was a solid?

Answer 1

It’s a Chemical Reaction so If one of the reactants is a solid, the surface area of the solid will affect how fast the reaction goes. This is because the two types of molecule can only bump into each other at the liquid solid interface, i.e. on the surface of the solid. So the larger the surface area of the solid, the faster the reaction will be.