Chemistry 12th Edition

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0078021510
ISBN 13: 978-0-07802-151-0

Chapter 22 - Nonmetallic Elements and Their Compounds - Questions & Problems - Page 991: 22.33

Answer

A piece of red-hot magnesium ribbon will continue to burn in an atmosphere of CO2 even though CO2 does not support combustion because magnesium is above carbon in the reactivity series and so can remove oxygen from carbon dioxide and continue to burn.

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