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Mind Map by Eric Huang, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Eric Huang
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Period 2
- Reactions with water
- Beryllium has no reaction with water or steam even at red heat.
- Magnesium burns in steam to produce white magnesium oxide and hydrogen gas.
- These all react with cold water with increasing vigour to give the metal hydroxide and hydrogen.
Strontium and barium have reactivities similar to lithium in Group 1 of the Periodic Table.
- Beryllium has a strong resistant layer of oxide on its surface which lowers its reactivity.
- Beryllium has no reaction with water or steam even at red heat.
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