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What does the magnesium experiment tell us about how gold reacts with oxygen?
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What is produced when you react a metal with oxygen?
Any metal that reacts with oxygen will produce a metal oxide. For example, magnesium reacts with oxygen to produce magnesium oxide, and zinc reacts with oxygen to produce zinc oxide. It is helpful to know the general word equation: metal + oxygen -> metal oxide
Why is gold sliver copper used to make coins but not magnesium?
Magnesium is a highly reactive metal compared to gold, silver and copper. It will form a magnesium oxide as an outer-shell when it comes to contact with oxygen in the air, and it reacts with water, creating hydrogen gas and fizzing.
What metal will react with oxygen but not water?
Metal reacting with oxygen is known as oxidation. A common form of this process is found in the rusting of iron, where the iron reacts with oxygen to form iron oxide (known as rust).
What does gold element react with?
Gold reacts with few elements including chlorine, oxygen and fluorine under critical conditions.
Gold reacts with oxygen?
Yes; the final compound is the oxide Au2O3; this compound has some useful applications.
Why are silver and gold good metals to use for jewelry and magnesium is not?
Silver and Gold are very unreactive, meaning that they won't tarnish easily, or change colour. Gold is perfect because it never reacts at all where as silver does tarnish, so it isn't as highly prized. Also, Gold and silver don't burn. Burning magnesium is bright enough to blind you
Will gold reacts with gold?
No.
What metal is used in the reaction of metal and air?
Metals in the reactivity series from aluminium to copper react with oxygen in the air to form the metal oxide. Aluminium and Zinc reacts very quickly, Iron reacts slowly at room temperature. Tin, Lead and Copper reacts with Oxygen in air when heated. Silver, Gold and Platinum do not react with Oxygen in air
Does gold not react with oxygen in the air because it conducts heat?
Gold does not react with oxygen because of its atomic structure which makes it very stable. As it is entirely stable, there is no need for it to react with oxygen to gain stability. Conduction of heat has nothing at all to do with it. Iron is an excellent conductor of heat but reacts readily with oxygen.
Why does gold not rust?
Rust is the common name of the corrosion products of Iron. These are the results of the reaction of iron with water and oxygen. Rust is also the term used only for iron oxides (Iron which reacts with oxygen). For corrosion of gold, see related link below. == ==
Three examples of an element?
hydrogen helium oxygen nitrogen phosphorus aluminium nickel calcium barium magnesium oxygen sulphur helium neon tin mercury
Is magnesium lighter than gold?
Yes. the molecular weight of magnesium is 24.3 g/mol and gold is 197
