Timeline for Reaction between magnesium metal and sodium hydroxide: Does this even happen?
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| Dec 17, 2017 at 15:29 | comment | added | matt_black | The reason why aluminium is so reactive to NaOH is because it destroys the oxide layer (the oxide is acidic). The oxide on the Mg might well not have this character. Worth a look. | |
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| Oct 18, 2017 at 15:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackChemistry/status/920668698192596992 | ||
| Oct 18, 2017 at 12:48 | comment | added | Jan | You need to use the Nernst equation to adjust the potentials accordingly to the much higher pH value. The potential of hydrogen gas and protons equalling zero is only true at pH zero. | |
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| Aug 27, 2017 at 21:46 | comment | added | permeakra | Magnesium does react with hot water (not so much with cold water). I see no reason for it to not react with hot sodium hydroxide (though it might happen slower). Also, magnesium is a very active metal and in mixture of fine powders reacts (actually, burns) with things like sand, many metal oxides, and for example, hydrate of barium chloride. Pretty sure it should burn with powder of solid sodium hydroxide. | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 13:51 | answer | added | Oscar Lanzi | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 13:34 | comment | added | AS_1000 | NaOH lowers the concentration of H+ in solution, so there is less H+ to begin with and considering that magnesium slowly reacts with water, I'm not astonished that it doesn't react with basic water. | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 13:24 | history | asked | paracetamol | CC BY-SA 3.0 |