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What happens when magnesium is burnt in the air?

When magnesium metal is burnt, it oxidizes or rather reacts with oxygen producing a white light, this results into formation of a compound, magnesium oxide, which is smelly and white in colour. At room temperatures, magnesium metal combines with air to form a thin skin of magnesium oxide. Magnesium is a group two metals with an atomic number of twelve and oxidation number +2.


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