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Q: What does the position of magnesium (Mg) on the periodic table tell you about how it reacts with other elements?
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Is magnesium combined with other elements?

Magnesium on heating reacts with oxygen and halogens but it also reacts with nitrogen.


Is magnesium inert?

Magnesium rapidly combines with many different elements, and violently reacts with hydrogen chloride. The last word I would use to describe it is inert.Look to the right side of the periodic table for gases and elements that are inert.


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How does the metal magnesium differ from the metal calcium in their reaction with water?

Calcium reacts more easily with water than does magnesium, because calcium donates electrons to other elements more readily than magnesium, as expected for a larger atom in the same periodic table column on the left side of a wide form periodic table.


What group of elements reacts vigorously with water and halogens?

All of the alkali metals, periodic column 1 excluding hydrogen in a wide form periodic table, and all but the two lightest alkaline earth elements, periodic table column 2 excluding beryllium and magnesium, have the reactivity specified by the question.


The metal which reacts with oxygen to form magnesium oxide?

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What happens when magnesium reacts wth hydrochloric acid?

Magnesium is a metal located in group 2 in the periodic table. So, it reacts with hydrochloric acid to liberate hydrogen gas. The other product is magnesium chloride, which is a neutral salt.


What happens when magnesium reacts with fluorine?

Under ordinary conditions magnesium burns in fluorine. To see a very brief video search YouTube.com for fluorine reacts with different elements.


Magnesium reacts with phosphorus?

magnesium reacts with phosphorus to produce magnesium phosphate.


Magnesium is not found naturally why?

Magnesium is an alkaline earth metal found in group 2 of the Periodic Table. That means it is fairly reactive and will readily combine with other elements or compounds rather than hang around by itself in nature.


What has one valence electron and reacts with other elements?

Any element in column 1 of a wide form periodic table has exactly one valence electron and reacts with other elements.


What group of the periodic table reacts most violently with fire?

Generally group 1 elements.