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Explain industrial role of magnesium?
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Magnesium is essential in various industrial processes. It plays a key role in:
Alloying: Magnesium alloys find wide use in automotive parts, aerospace components, and consumer electronics due to their lightweight, strength, and corrosion resistance.
Reducing agent: Magnesium is a powerful reducing agent and is employed in the production of titanium, uranium, and other metals from their oxides.
Grignard reagents: In organic chemistry, Grignard reagents (organomagnesium compounds) are essential for forming carbon-carbon bonds and are used in the synthesis of various organic molecules.
Other applications: Magnesium compounds like magnesium hydroxide (milk of magnesia) are used as antacids, and magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt) is a common laxative. Magnesium oxide is also used in refractories and as a component of cement.
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