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>> Not magnesium, no. (Not at any appreciable rate, at least.) Try it
>> with, say, sodium and you've have a Big Problem. Magnesium is far too
>> unreactive for it to be a problem.
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> But when the metal is at the combustion point it would react with the
> water, right?
>
> Yes, right ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium#Precautions
Oh, well, I've only tried mixing it in water at room temperatures.
> Sodium reacts if you so much as look at it wrong...
Yes. ;-)
And calcium bubbles quite a bit.
And magnesium... well after about an hour a few tiny bubbles had formed
on its surface. So I guess that's a sort-of reaction?
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