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why is it important to clean the metals with sandpaper

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Metal being reactive . When they are left in contact with air for a long time they slowly react and form oxides which gets deposited and forms a layer on it.
For eg : Mg Ribbon and Iron are one of the common metals which are usually cleaned with sand paper.
sand paper is made up of silica .

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