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Alkaline Earths

The Alkaline Earth Metals are the second group of the periodic table of the elements. They are highly reactive and share many properties with each other. In this category, there are ANY questions that have to do with the alkaline earths, or their elements: Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, and Radium.

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What is the importance of alkaline earth metals in human body?

Alkaline earth metals in the body play a huge role in health. For instance, calcium is the fifth most abundant in the human body. You need calcium for strong bones.

Beryllium a stable element?

Beryllium is not only a stable light metal but also comes with a high melting point.

How does the size of a beryllium atom compare with the size of an oxygen atom?

Oxygen is fairly smaller than Beryllium. The two have the same amount of orbital shells, but Oxygen has more protons, which pulls its electrons closer together, thus decreasing the overall size!

What are some facts about alkaline earth metals?

Alkaline Earth Metal found in second group of periodic table. The components are beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), and radium (Ra).

Below some characteristics of Alkaline Earth metals,

1. These metals have an oxidation number of +2 that makes them very reactive.

2. These elements are not freely in nature.

3. These elements are found on earth crust but not in their basic form.

4. they have couple of electrons in their outer most shell.

5. They are distributed in rock structures.

6. They have a high boiling and melting point.

7. they have low density, electron affinity and electromagnetic.

8. they are silver in color.

9. ductile and malleable.

10. Easily reactive with halogens and water.

What color are protons and neutrons in beryllium?

protons: blue

neutrons: indigo or light purple

electrons: red

What are two ways that alkaline earth metals affect life?

well, one of the alkaline metals are sodium. how does salt (sodium chloride) effect you? In tons of ways. Potassium, a nearly nessisary nutrient? That effects you too, and one google search will tell you how. But a few of alkaline metals, llike Francium, are extrordinarily rare. It has no purpose or use, either. So take into concideration that a few are actually useless.

The alkaline earth metals are found in group?

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

What is a cracking of a oil fraction?

It is when you break large hydrocarbons/alkanes, into smaller more useful alkanes/alkenes.

For example a large hydrocarbon in crude oil is Bitumen. By passing this substance over a hot catalyst, you can break it down into smaller hydrocarbons such as Petrol or Diesel

Is beryllium a noble gas?

No, Be is the first element in group 2 (atom number 4) and all noble gases are in group 18 (or formerly 8)

What is the mark on the bottle of sodium hydroxide and sulfuric acid?

Both of these would be poisonous to drink, and hence could be marked with the skull and crossbones, although working chemists would just label them with their chemical names.

What is the difference between calcium alkaline earth metal and calcium that is present in the milk?

In its elemental form, calcium is made of electrically neutral Ca atoms. It is s silvery, highly reactive metal, that vigorously reacts with water.

The calcium in milk is in the form of Ca2+ ions, which are chemically stable.

Which has a greater ionization energy beryllium or germanium?

Beryllium has greater ionization energy, with 899 kJ/mol versus Germanium's 762 kJ/mol.

The general trend (most prominently displayed in the representative elements) in the periodic table is increasing ionization energy across a period, and decreasing ionization energy down a group.

What characteristics are shared by alkalimetals and alkaline earth metals?

They are metals that are reactive. They form cations easily and form ionic bonds.

What is the difference between neon and beryllium?

About 11 amu. 6 protons and 6 electrons in the elemental forms. One's an alkaline earth metal that easily ionizes and forms compounds with other species, the other's a noble gas. Shall I go on?