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Is MgO a metal or non metal?


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Explanation:

  1. MgO is widely regarded as most effective metal stabilized compound due to its superior buffering capacity.
  2. Magnesium oxide is a rock salt like structure, it is an ionic compound.
  3. Magnesium oxide breaks in Mg2+and O2-.
  4. The combination of these two fragment form magnesium oxide. Overall magnesium oxide act as metal.

Hence, magnesium oxide is a metal.


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