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Magnesium on heating reacts with oxygen and halogens but it also reacts with nitrogen.
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.
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.
Under ordinary conditions magnesium burns in fluorine. To see a very brief video search YouTube.com for fluorine reacts with different elements.
Generally group 1 elements.
Magnesium on heating reacts with oxygen and halogens but it also reacts with nitrogen.
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.
elements on the right of the periodic table
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.
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.
elements and compounds
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.
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 to produce magnesium phosphate.
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.
Any element in column 1 of a wide form periodic table has exactly one valence electron and reacts with other elements.
Generally group 1 elements.