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Question
If you leave a piece of iron in the open for a few days, it acquires a film of brownish substance, called rust.
Give two other examples of a similar type of change.
Solution
(i) Burning of magnesium ribbon to give magnesium oxide.
(ii) Burning of wood to give coal and rash.
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