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Question 2 1 pts Alkali metals, and metals in general, were known in Mendeleev's time to be highly reactive. • Metal reactivity is connected to: the ability for a metal to lose electrons and become cations how much metals love to steal electrons from other elements to form negatively charged anions. nothing. We still do not fully understand metal reactivity. how most metals are highly radio active and give off tremendous energy when they split into smaller particles,

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Alkali metals are most reactive elements. The reason behind such reactivity is the low ionisation. energy of the alkali metals. All the alkali metals has only one electron in its outer.lst orbital i.e. valance shell, which can be easily removed in a reaction, vigorous amount of energy is released in this processas well. After removing one electron all the alkali metals attained the configuration of nearest nobel gas.

So in conclusion we can said that metal reactivity is due to the ability of the metal to lose elwctrons and become cations.