answersLogoWhite

0

It means metals that are highly reactive. It's one of the most self-evident pieces of terminology in all of chemistry.

Perhaps you were trying to ask which metals are considered "highly reactive", which is a separate question, and one that to some extent depends on your definitions, but would certainly at minimum include all the alkali metals, maybe the alkaline earth metals, and possibly a few selected others (aluminium, for example... we don't usually think of aluminium as "highly reactive" because it immediately forms a thin transparent protective layer of aluminium oxide when exposed to air, but without that layer, it is indeed pretty reactive).

User Avatar

Green Tremblay

Lvl 13
3y ago

What else can I help you with?