What do you observe when the following substance is heated and then tested with moist blue and red litmus paper?
Magnesium
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Magnesium on heating produces magnesium oxide. Magnesium oxide turns moist red litmus paper to blue as it is basic in nature. The blue litmus remains unaffected.
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