Question

Write Two the differences between magnesium oxide and magnesium hydroxide

Answer 1

When Magnesium is burnt, it is mixed with Oxygen and forms Magnesium Oxide. When Magnesium Oxide is mixed with water then it forms Magnesium Hydeoxide.

Answer 2

magnesium hydroxide and magnesium oxide both appear in the active ingredients of certain over the counter medication particularly Lagate laxatives and they are very similar in structure and in function in fact in the presence of water magnesium oxide actually turns into a magnesium Hydroxide because of this and because there plenty of water in the body you can consider the interchange with regard to biological activity