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Preparations and Reactions of Sodium Oxide

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Why metallic oxides are called basic oxides and non-metallic oxides are called acidic oxides ?

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Dear student, when metallic oxides are allowed to react with water they form metal hyroxide ( base ) while non metal oxides on reacting with water form acids . Regards

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