Periodic-als Ionic Compound
Ionic Compound Selected:
Why did you select this Ionic Compound?
I had chosen Magnesium Oxide.
How is this Ionic Compound important/relevant to your life?
Living organisms use it as a natural supplement for our body.
Facts on the METAL in your Compound
Source 1 Title: Magnesium: The EssentialsMLA Citation: webelements.com, Magnesium: The Essentialshttp://www.webelements.com/magnesium/
Facts on the NONMETAL in your Compound
Source 2 Title: Oxygen: The Essentials
MLA Citation: webelements.com, Oxygen: The Essentials, http://www.webelements.com/oxygen/
Facts on the Ionic Compound
Source 2 Title: Magnesium OxideMLA Citation: medicineplus.com, Magnesium Oxide, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a601074.html
Ionic Compound Selected:
Why did you select this Ionic Compound?
I had chosen Magnesium Oxide.
How is this Ionic Compound important/relevant to your life?
Living organisms use it as a natural supplement for our body.
Facts on the METAL in your Compound
Source 1 Title: Magnesium: The EssentialsMLA Citation: webelements.com, Magnesium: The Essentialshttp://www.webelements.com/magnesium/
- Magnesium is an element that your body needs to function properly.
- Magnesium is a grayish-white, fairly tough metal
- Magnesium is the eighth most abundant element in the earth's crust although not found in it's elemental form.
- Magnesium metal burns with a very bright light.
- Chlorophylls are porphyrins based upon magnesium
- the adult human daily requirement of magnesium is about 0.3 g day
- Magnesium was discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy at 1755 in England
- magnesium can be made commercially by several processes and would not normally be made in the laboratory because of its ready availability
- There are massive amounts of magnesium in seawater
Facts on the NONMETAL in your Compound
Source 2 Title: Oxygen: The Essentials
MLA Citation: webelements.com, Oxygen: The Essentials, http://www.webelements.com/oxygen/
- about one fifth of the atmosphere is oxygen gas,
- oxygen is the third most abundant element found in the sun, and it plays a part in the carbon-nitrogen cycle, one process responsible for stellar energy production
- About two thirds of the human body, and nine tenths of water, is oxygen
- The gas is colourless, odourless, and tasteless.
- Oxygen was discovered by Joseph Priestley, Carl Scheele at 1774 in England, Sweden.
- there is not normally any need to make oxygen in the laboratory as it is readily available
- Oxygen in excited states is responsible for the bright red and yellow-green colours of the aurora.
- It is essential for all life
- Liquid and solid oxygen are pale blue and strongly paramagnetic
Facts on the Ionic Compound
Source 2 Title: Magnesium OxideMLA Citation: medicineplus.com, Magnesium Oxide, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a601074.html
- Magnesium oxide may be used for different reasons.
- Some people use it as an antacid to relieve heartburn, sour stomach, or acid indigestion
- also may be used as a laxative for short-term, rapid emptying of the bowel
- Magnesium oxide also is used as a dietary supplement when the amount of magnesium in the diet is not enough
- Magnesium oxide is available without a prescription.
- Magnesium oxide comes as a tablet and capsule to take by mouth
- If you are using magnesium oxide as a laxative, take it with a full glass (8 ounces [240 milliliters]) of cold water or fruit juice.
- Do not take magnesium oxide as an antacid for longer than 2 weeks
- Magnesium oxide was historically known as magnesia alba
- known as a metastable compound.