When a small piece of sodium is placed in a petri dish with water and phenolphthalein, the sodium becomes a molten ball and darts around the dish, leaving a pink trail. The reactions of potassium, ...

Hydrogen gas is also produced. With very reactive metals such as potassium, the energy of the reaction causes the hydrogen to burn as the reaction takes place.

IN a recent letter (NATURE, February 24, p. 827) attention was directed to positive rays of metallic elements generated by means of a heated anode by which lithium (atomic weight 6.94) was ...

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When the alkali metals react with the different halogens (Group 7 of the periodic table), the group of compounds formed are known as the alkali metals halides. Due to the fact that there are a ...

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The paper is published in the journal Water Resources Research. In total, the authors identified 62 metals in their samples and found metal abundances spanned 10 orders of magnitude, with alkali ...