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Does magnesium react

Updated: 8/10/2023
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11y ago

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Magnesium reacts with steam faster than cold water because magnesium needs to burn to get magnesium oxide and to get magnesium oxide there has to be heat and since steam is already heated it doesn't need much time, but the cold water needs time to heat first to react.

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14y ago

If the magnesium oxide reacts with steam to produce magnesium metal, the magnesium atoms in the magnesium oxide are reduced. If the magnesium oxide reacts with steam to produce magnesium hydroxide, the magnesium is neither oxidised nor reduced.

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14y ago

Magnesium hydroxide - Mg(OH)2

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Magnesium Oxide - MgO

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Santhan Dasari

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1y ago
Mg(OH)2 is when it reacts with hot water
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Santhan Dasari

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1y ago
MgO is formed with steam just like when sodium reacts with steam to give out Na2O

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12y ago

i think it is the gas hydrogen..

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12y ago

yes it does

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