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Reaction of Metals with Water or Steam

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Fill in the following blanks with suitable words:
(a) Magnesium liberates ........ gas on reacting with hot boiling water.
(b) The white powder formed when magnesium ribbon burns in oxygen is of...
(c) Ordinary aluminium strips are not attacked by water because of the presence of a layer of ....on the surface fo aluminium.
(d) A metal having low melting point is ... but a non-metal having very high melting point is ...
(e) Calcium is .... reactive metal than sodium.

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(a) hydrogen
(b) magnesium oxide
(c) aluminium oxide
(d) sodium, diamond
(e) less

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