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They were exposed to and reacted with oxygen in the air.
When magnesium has reacted with oxygen, it form a white powder which is neither metal nor non-metal, but is a compound. This is also known as a metal oxide.
Magnesium. Calcium. Iron. Any metal that forms a 2 + cation.
calcium is an alkaline earth metal thus has different characteristics to the alkali metals.
calcium is a metal
The white coating on calcium metal is calcium that has reacted with the oxygen in the air to form calcium oxide
They were exposed to and reacted with oxygen in the air.
When magnesium has reacted with oxygen, it form a white powder which is neither metal nor non-metal, but is a compound. This is also known as a metal oxide.
The oxidation of a metal produces a metal oxide. For example, calcium + oxide -> calcium oxide
Calcium is a very reactive metal and is always found in a reacted state in compounds where it is ionic, present as the Ca2+ ion. The best known mineral is limestone, calcium carbonate. Calcium metal is not produced commercially in great quantities, one method of production is to react calcium oxide with aluminium at high temperature, , a so-called aluminothermic reaction similar to the thermite reaction where aluminium is the reducing agent.
Ionic
calcium metal dissolves in water because as it gets put in the water, the calcium quickly bonds with the oxygen atom in H2O. so it leaves that with hydrogen, therefore, hydrogen is produced when calcium dissolves in water
Calcium contains only one atom per molecule, while oxygen contains two. The usual reaction product from a reaction between calcium and oxygen has the formula CaO and therefore contains one atom of each element per molecule. 4 moles of oxygen provides 8 moles of oxygen atoms, so that under the conditions given, calcium is the limiting reactant, and 6.55 moles of calcium oxide will be formed.
Correct 2 Ca + O2 ------> 2CaO
Magnesium. Calcium. Iron. Any metal that forms a 2 + cation.
They would form an ionic bond. Calcium is a metal and oxygen is a non-metal, and the ionic bond is the most common way these two types of elements get together. Calcium has 2 valence electrons, which it will lose to oxygen, which has 6 and therefore needs 2. Calcium and oxygen will combine in a 1:1 ratio to form calcium oxide with the formula CaO.
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