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Potassium is very unstable as it is part of the alkali metals part of the Periodic Table, it will react to water, by blowing up.
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Which of the following metals is the least stable Silver Potassium Iron or Aluminum?
Potassium.
What element would form a ionic bond with fluorine?
Many elements can form an ionic bond with fluorine. Metals in groups one and two (such as alkali metals lithium, sodium, potassium, etc. or alkali earth metals like magnesium or calcium) like to form ionic compounds with fluorine. This is because fluorine has an extra electron it wants to give away, and metals in group one and two want another electron to become stable.
Is silicon or aluminum more stable?
both Actually aluminum is a little unstable. Its electronic configuration is 2,8,3. To be stable an element needs to have a full outer electron shell so to become stable Aluminium needs to lose 3 electrons to become 2,8 so it will have a full outer shell (8 electrons)
What is an isotope with 14 protons and 16 neutrons?
The natural stable isotope of silicon, 30Si, has 14 protons and 16 neutrons.
Which breaks down more easily magnesium nitrate or silver nitrate?
Silver nitrate is more stable.
Which of the following metals is the least stable Silver Potassium Iron or Aluminum?
Potassium.
What metals is the most stable gold zinc silver potassium?
gold
Which of the following metals is least stable of potassium silver iron and aluminium?
Answer is potassium. You have seen silver,iron and aluminium. You must not have handled potassium.
Can you consider aluminum chlorine calcium and potassium give up electrons to be stable?
The metals aluminum, calcium, and potassium will give up electrons to be stable. Chlorine is a nonmetal and it will gain an electron in an ionic bond in order to be stable.
What is a member of the alkaline earth metals whose most stable ion has 18 electrons?
Potassium.
What is the balanced equation for silver plus potassium nitrate?
Potassium nitrate is too stable and so is silver for these two species to react. There is thus no balanced equation.
What elements that don't react with other elements?
Potassium will react vigorously of violently with many nonmetals.
Is aluminum more like potassium?
Aluminum and potassium are both metals, but that's where the similarities end. Aluminum is fairly stable at room temperature, and its physical properties make it useful for building things that need to be lightweight, but still strong (like boats, airplanes, etc.) Potassium is explosively reactive at room temperature and doesn't even exist in nature as an element, only in compounds. This makes it impractical for anything except chemical reactions. Potassium's high reactivity and aluminum's relative stability are a function of valence electrons, those electrons in the outermost energy level of an atom that participate in chemical reactions. Potassium has one valence electron and aluminum has three. Generally speaking, the fewer valence electrons a metal has, the more reactive it is.
If you boil Silver in salt water why does Sulfur form?
The black tarnish on silver is silver sulfide, Ag2S. Presumably you are boiling silver in a metal pot. The salt water completes an electrochemical cell between the silver sulfide and the aluminum, copper, or iron pot. The oxidized silver in silver sulfide is reduced to silver metal, and part of the metal pot is oxidized; the reaction happens because silver wants to be reduced more than the other metals do. You might imagine that as the metal is oxidized it would become iron, copper, or aluminum sulfide, but the metal sulfides, especially aluminum sulfide, are not so stable. Aluminum sulfide hydrolyzes to aluminum hydroxides and hydrogen sulfide, H2S, the stinky gas, which is probably what you are calling "sulfur".
Is group 1 on the periodic table stable?
group 1 would be the Alkali Metals: Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Cesium, and Francium
What can zippers be made of?
Any material sufficiently rigid and stable to perform the locking function. metals used are aluminum and brass, and some hard plastics.
Do metals usually gain or loose electrons to be stable?
Metals will LOSE electrons to become stable.
