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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alkali metal" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a group of chemical elements that are highly reactive and typically found in the first column of the periodic table. Example: "Sodium and potassium are both examples of alkali metals, known for their ability to react vigorously with water."
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alkali metal
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Any of the soft, light, reactive metals of Group 1 of the periodic table; lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, and francium.
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Sodium is by far the most commercially important alkali metal.
In addition to the alkali metal amide salt and solvated electrons, such ammonia solutions also contain the alkali metal cation (M+), the neutral alkali metal atom (M), diatomic alkali metal molecules (M2) and alkali metal anions (M−).
For example, most alkali metal salts are soluble in water, a property which ammonium salts share.
Alkali metal alkoxides react to give the metal alkoxide complexes of varying complexity.
However, thallium also displays the oxidation state +3, which no known alkali metal displays (although ununennium, the undiscovered seventh alkali metal, is predicted to possibly display the +3 oxidation state).
They announced their discovery of element 87 and proposed the name alkalinium, as it would be the heaviest alkali metal.
When an alkali metal is dropped into water, it produces an explosion, of which there are two separate stages.
24 Several alkali metal complexes of arsinidene ligands have also been structurally characterized.
Magnesium ions, alkali metal ion, potassium ion, cation binding activities were major ion binding clusters.
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Multicomponent TMP bases generally have an alkali-metal non-alkali-metal (e.g., Mg, Zn, alkali-metal non-alkali-metald with ligalkali-metal non-alkali-metal
Neutral and ionic alkali-metal halide clusters have been widely studied, both experimentally and theoretically.
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