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Aluminium utensils should not be kept in water overnight.

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Although metallic aluminium is not affected by water but on being kept overnight it slowly reacts with moisture in presence of aerial oxygen.
`2Al(s)+O_2(g)+H_2O(l)toAl_2O_3(s)+H_2(g)`
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