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When a magnesium ribbon burns in air with dazzling flame & form a white ash is magnesium oxidized or reduced? Why?

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2Mg + O2 --> 2MgO

It is obviously oxidized while MgO is reduced. Oxygen took the electrons magnesium donated. A balanced equation tells you much about chemical processes.

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