Magnesium

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Magnesium
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• By Kayleigh St.Clair

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Properties of Magnesium

• Grey/Silver
• Burns Bright
• Melting Point-650.0 C
• (923.15 K, 1202.0 F)
• Boiling Point-1107.0C
• (1380.15 K, 2024.6 F)
• Reacts with air
• Light weight
• Hexagonal

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Uses of Magnesium

• -Used in Fireworks, Missiles, Air Planes
• -Used to help your body function
• -Used in other metals to make them stronger
• -It is mainly used because of it low density,
  high chemical reactivity and the ability to form
  intermetallic compounds with other elements
• -It is used a lot to make metal/steel/iron casts

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Facts About Magnesium
-It has the lightest weight out of all the metals
on the Periodic Table of Elements at 1.74 g.cm-3
-It is a reactive metal -Your bones have 50 of
the total amount Magnesium in your
body -Magnesium is one of the minerals that keep
our heart pumping -Magnesium was named after the
city it was discovered in (city Magnesia)
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silver / gray
Found in Sea Water
In Air Planes
SOLID
Found In a place called Magnesia
metal
1808
Discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy
In missiles
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http//www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/ele
ments/periodic-table/uses.html
http//www.chemicalelements.com/index.html/scholar
/elements/periodic-table/uses.html
http//environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/Mg
.html
http//www.webelements.com/webelements
http//www.members.tripod.com/Mg/mggen.htmuses
http//ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/magnesium.asph1