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Write balanced equations and give your observations when the following metals react :
Magnesium with steam.

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Magnesium burns in steam with intense white light to produce white magnesium oxide, which crumbles down with liberation of hydrogen gas.
`Mg(s)+H_2O(g) to MgO(s) + H_2(g)`
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