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Why is magnesium a metal?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

magnesium is not a metal but a reactive metal. scientists have divided all elements into two types of category: metals and non-metals to classify them as they have different chemical and physical properties. magnesium has properties of a metal so it is a metal.

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