Answer:
- Alkali metals react with water to produce hydroxide and hydrogen gas.
Explanation:
That is a chemical property of alkali metals: they are highly reactive and react vigorously with water to produce the correspondant hydroxide and hydrogen gas.
These are some of those reactions:
- 2Li (s) + 2H₂O (l) → 2LiOH (aq) + H₂(g) ↑
- 2Na (s) + 2H₂O (l) → 2NaOH (aq) + H₂(g) ↑
- 2K (s) + 2H₂O (l) → 2KOH (aq) + H₂(g) ↑
The alkali metals are the elements of group 1 of the periodic table: Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, and Fr. They have one valence electron which may lose easily to form an ion with charge +1.
