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What happens when water reacts with sodium metal ?

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When water reacts with sodium metal, water act as oxidising agent towards Na metal and itself gets reduced to dihydrogen.
`underset("oxidising")(2H_(2)O(I))+2Na(g)to2NaOH(aq)+H_(2)(g).`
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