We did a short little magnesium lab in our class, and or little experiment actually didn't turn out the way it was supposed to. It didn't really smoke and light up like some other peoples did. But when we did do it we had a little ceramic Crucible, a ribbon of magnesium, a scale, and a little gas torch that heated up and turned the magnesium into the powder that we got at the end of the lab.
First we got the ceramic crucible and weighed it by its self and got 11.61g. Next we weighed the Mg ribbon and crucible before heating it and got 12.01g. Then we subtracted 11.61 from 12.01 and got .60g for the weight of the Mg ribbon. We next weighed the crucible and Mg products after heating and got 12.17g. The Mg ribbon products mixed with distilled water was .16g. After we weighed that we got a conductivity tester and tested the conductivity of the Magnesium. The Mg had a medium conductivity level. The compounds were ionic.
Here is a pictures of burning magnesium ribbon:
Magnesium ashes after being burnt:
What we did was pretty similar to this, except we burnt the Mg ribbon in a crucible.
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