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Magnesium is a group 2 metal and Iodine is group 7 so MgI2 because Mg needs to loose 2 electrons to gain a full outer shell and Iodine only wants 1 electron so there needs to be 2 Iodine atoms.

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Q: What is the balanced equation of magnesium iodide?
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