Alkali metals

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  • Created on: 15-05-13 17:18
What do they react readily with?
Air and water
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What are they at room temperature?
Soft solids
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Melting and boiling points =
Low (they decrease going down the group)
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Why do lithium, sodium and potassium float on water?
Low densities (alkali metals)
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What do they react with to produce hydrogen gas and a metal hydroxide (an alkali)?
Water
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For example, Sodium + water =
Sodium hydroxide and hydrogen
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They react with halogens to form (Group 7) to form...
Salts
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What colour are the salts produced?
White or colourless
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For example, Sodium + chlorine =
Sodium chloride
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Compounds of alkali metals dissolve in..
Water
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Forming solutions that are usually...
Colourless
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Going down Group 1, the reactivity of the alkali metal...
Increases
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Why?
Outer electron is less strongly attracted the nucleus as the energy levels increases
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And?
The atoms get larger
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