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Metals with Oxygen

1. Sodium reacts with oxygen to make sodium oxide.

a. What are the two reactants?
b. What is the product?

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Sodium is a very reactive metal, it tends to react with oxygen to form sodium oxide but this is an unstable compound and soon reacts with hydrogen to form sodium hydroxide. Sodium is the metal reacts vigorously with oxygen and water. 4 Na + O2 → 2 Na2O.

Ans 2 :Methane and oxygen (oxygen is a diatomic — two-atom — element) are the reactants, while carbon dioxide and water are the products. All the reactants and products are gases (indicated by the g's in parentheses). In this reaction, all reactants and products are invisible

Ans 3: When a metal reacts with oxygen, a metal oxide forms. The general equation for this reaction is: metal + oxygen → metal oxide.

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