Answer:
Saline hydrides react with water
violently to produce hydrogen. These reactions are highly exothermic and the
evolved hydrogen catches fire.
\[NaH+C{{O}_{2}}\to
NaOH+{{H}_{2}}\]
The fire so produced cannot be extinguished with because \[C{{O}_{2}}\]
is reduced by hot metal hydride.
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