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Preparations and Uses of Caustic Soda

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Write a balanced chemical reaction and give your observation when the following metals react:
Magnesium with boiling water

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Observation: Magnesium(Mg) reacts slowly with boiling water to form white residue of magnesium hydroxide $M g (O H)_{2})$

0 with the evolution of hydrogen gas.
The balanced equation for the reaction is,
$M g + 2 H_{2} O \to M g (O H)_{2} + H_{2}$

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