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Write and balance sodium when it burns in air to form sodium peroxide​

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Answer:7.229 grams of oxygen is formed by the complete reaction of 35.23 g of metallic sodium with oxygen at 130–200 °C, a process that generates sodium oxide, which in a separate stage absorbs oxygen: 4 Na + O2 → 2 Na2O. The ozone oxidizes the sodium to form sodium peroxide.

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