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What are metal oxides?

What are metal oxides?

Reactants of magnesium and oxygen forming magnesium oxide, with oxidation labelled as gain of oxygen

A metal oxide is a compound made when a metal combines chemically with oxygen. Oxygen in air is usually found as O2O_2O2​, so the general reaction pattern is metal+oxygen→metal oxide\text{metal} + \text{oxygen} \rightarrow \text{metal oxide}metal+oxygen→metal oxide.

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