Given below are two reactions of water with sodium and carbon dioxide. What is the nature of water in these reactions?

(i) $2 N a + 2 H_{2} O \to 2 N a O H + H_{2}$

(ii) $6 C O_{2} + 12 H_{2} O \to C_{6} H_{12} O_{6} + 6 H_{2} O + 6 O_{2}$

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With sodium metal water acts as an oxidising agent and gets reduced to H 2 , with C O 2 water acts as a reducing agent and is oxidised to oxygen.

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