What is redox reaction ? When a magnesium ribbon burns with a dazzling flame and forms a white ash , is magnesium ribbon is oxidised or reduced
1 Answer
Apr 30, 2018
Well, redox reactions involve formal changes in oxidation state with respect to reactant and product...
Explanation:
All combustion reactions are redox reactions...
And here we put in oxidation numbers...
And so here magnesium has been oxidized, i.e. lost electons, to give
Formally we could use the method of half-equations...
...accompanied by
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