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Why magnesium ribbon is rubbed

Posted by Aditya Singh 6 years, 9 months ago

CBSE > Class 10 > Science

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Ashish Goyal 6 years, 9 months ago

When stored, magnesium reacts with oxygen in air to form a layer of magnesium oxide.This layer of MgO is quite stable and prevent further reation of magnesium with oxygen.Magnesium ribbon is cleaned by sand paper so that the underlying metal can exposed in air.

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Shraddha Verma 6 years, 9 months ago

To remove the layer of magnesium oxide ...as magnesium ribbon would have reacted with atmospheric oxygen

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Scarlet Fox 6 years, 9 months ago

To remove the layer of basic magnesium carbonate from magnesium ribbon

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Akshay Kumar 6 years, 9 months ago

To remove magnesium oxide

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Krishna Pandey 6 years, 9 months ago

To remove oxisdising agent to make it burn

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Mayank Bhunia 6 years, 9 months ago

To remove the layer of magnesium oxide on it's surface

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