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All alkaline earth metals loss two electrons.

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2 electrons on their outershell. They're all Metals, they all exhibit Metallic Bonding.

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A metalloid is an element (e.g., germanium or silicon) whose properties are intermediate between those of metals and solid nonmetals. They are electrical semiconductors.

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They are highly reactive and form ionic bonds.

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Why do all elements in the alkaline earth metals have similar properties?

2 valence electrons (apex)


Are alkali and alkaline earth metals are not reactive?

No. The alkali and alkaline earth metals are very reactive.


Compare the solubilities of the lead compounds with those of the alkaline earth metals How are the solubilities similar and different?

Look at the position of Pb in the periodic table and the postion of the Alkali Earth metals. Alkali Earth Metals are in noble-gas configuration when they are doubly charged cations. Lead however is on the right hand side, and would like to have more electrons to get into that stablest configuration; making the bonds in lead-compounds more covalent -and stronger- in nature. Insoluble compounds have lattice enthalpies higher than the enthalpy of solvation. Now since Alkali Earth metals like to be in ionic states; their compounds will dissolve in general more easily than the same compounds with lead, since usually the lattice energy of lead compounds is much higher (In case of insoluble compounds higher than the energy that would be released upon solvation, which thus doesn't occur).


The alkaline earth metals are found in group?

The alkaline earth metals are in the group 2 of the periodic table of Mendeleev.


Compare and contrast the reaction of alkaline earth metals with their salts?

All alkaline earth metals and their salts are reactive and they have a blue-print that identifies them as an alkaline earth metal but metals exist as metals, and salts as salts, with different structural compounds.

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