Question

State the nature of oxide of non metal and metal and justify by giving chemical equation

Answer 1

A general property of metal oxides is that they tend to react with water to form basic solutions of the metal hydroxide. For example BaO is a basic oxide. It dissolves in water to form barium hydroxide, Ba(OH)2

Some metal oxides are basic or amphoteric in nature and form salts with base in neutralization reaction. For example, aluminum oxide reacts with sodium hydroxide to form sodium aluminate. Those metallic oxides which have oxygen-oxygen bond are known as peroxides. Here oxygen atom presents in -1 oxidation state.