Hi, I'm new to this community and to these forums. I'm also fairly new to chemistry (only been taking it for about half a year now), but it's something I'm beginning to fall in love with.
Anyways, here is my question. I synthesized FeCl2 by adding HCl to Fe (more specifially, steel wool). However, at the time when I did this, I thought I had created FeCl3. A day later when I added strips of Aluminum to the FeCl2 solution, the aluminum strip "Fizzed" wildly as it dissolved and released a fair amount of a gas in the process (Since there is no gas in Al + FeCl3 --> Fe + AlCl3, the gas produced surprised me, and caused me to do further research into the HCl + Fe Reaction). Anyways, could someone help me out and tell me what exactly Al(s) + FeCl2 produces? I've searched on google for a while now, and have not been able to come up with anything other than the reaction with FeCl3. Thanks in advance.