Sodium and potassium are very similar elements, they are both very reactive metals
How is the way elections are arranged in these elements are similar?
How does this arrangement make them reactive?
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How is the way elections are arranged in these elements are similar?
How does this arrangement make them reactive?
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They have one electron lonely in the outermost "shell" of electrons around the nucleus. It is not strongly attracted to the nucleus, shielded as it is by all those other electrons, so it is relatively easy to drag an electron away for an assignation with another atom. This = reactive.
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Both +1 charge
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