What forms when acetic acid reacts with magnesium carbonate?
Also question is, what happens when acetic acid reacts with magnesium?
Carboxylic acids react with the more reactive metals to produce a salt and hydrogen. For example, dilute ethanoic acid reacts with magnesium. The magnesium reacts to produce a colourless solution of magnesium ethanoate, and hydrogen is given off.
Similarly, it is asked, how is magnesium carbonate formed?
Magnesium carbonate can be prepared in laboratory by reaction between any soluble magnesium salt and sodium bicarbonate: MgCl2(aq) + 2NaHCO3(aq) → MgCO3(s) + 2NaCl(aq) + H2O(l) + CO2(g)
Description Magnesium Carbonate occurs as white, fria- ble masses or powder. It is odorless. It is practically insoluble in water, in ethanol (95), in diethyl ether and in 1-propanol. It dissolves in dilute hydrochloric acid with effervescence.