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Alkali metals are more reactive as they are in group 1 and therefore has only one valence electron. With only one valence electron, its easy for them to achieve inert configuration/ noble gas configuration, which makes them so reactive.
Alkali Metals
Alkali metals are extremely reactive and therefore are never found in their metallic state - only in compounds. As an example sodium metal is never found in nature only as compounds like salt etc.
AnswerAlkali metals are the most reactive metalsFrancium is the most reactive metal. This is as it has many layers, the last layer having only one electron, far away from the positive pull of the proton.
Metals: the farther to the left the more reactive they are. Group 1 metals, which include sodium and potassium, are so highly reactive that they do not exist in nature by themselves (only in compound form.) Non-metals: the farther to the right the more reactive they are *with the exception of group 18* which are the noble gases and do not react at all. The most reactive are group 17, which include fluorine and chlorine. These non-metals, like group 1, rarely exist by themselves because of their high reactivity.
Alkali metals are more reactive as they are in group 1 and therefore has only one valence electron. With only one valence electron, its easy for them to achieve inert configuration/ noble gas configuration, which makes them so reactive.
Alkali Metals
The most reactant group is the alkaline metals. but they only really start getting really reactive the more you move down the alkali metals.
the alkali metals are the most reactive because they only have 1 electron in their outer shell, so they are 'ready' to lose it really easily.
The most reactive metal is francium but this element is only a curiosity being very rare and unstable.
The halogens are the most reactive non-metals. They need only 1 additional electron to complete their octet.
The most chemically reactive metals are the alkali metals. Francium is the most reactive of these and of all metal (although it is present on earth only in exceedingly small quantities, due to its radioactivity).The most reactive element available in useful quantities in Flourine.
The group you're thinking of is group 1, the alkali metals. They include sodium and potassium, and you're right, they are so reactive that they do not exist by themselves. They only exist in compounds with other elements.
Alkali metals are extremely reactive and therefore are never found in their metallic state - only in compounds. As an example sodium metal is never found in nature only as compounds like salt etc.
AnswerAlkali metals are the most reactive metalsFrancium is the most reactive metal. This is as it has many layers, the last layer having only one electron, far away from the positive pull of the proton.
The alkali metals Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium cesium and Francium is the most reactive group of metals. They are this way because they only need to lose one electron to gain a stable octet which is very favorable energetically. The most reactive group of non-metals is the halogens, Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine and Astatine. These are the exact opposite. They are extremely reactive because they only need to gain one electron to gain a stable octet which is again, highly energetically favorable.
sodium, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, zinc, iron, tin and led are metals more reactive than hydrogen.