Alkaline Metal facts

Introduction :

Alkaline metals are of very keen importance to us. These metals were discovered in the first decade of 19th century by an English chemist Sir Humphry Davy (1778- 829). Along the same time, he also found some elements of other metal families. Alkaline metal facts include all the basic properties shown by them.

About Alkaline Metals
Alkaline metals constituting Group2 of the Periodic Table. These metals show some general properties which are as follows:

• These metals are softer than most other metals
• These metals readily react with water (especially when heated).
• These metals are powerful reducing agents.
• These metals form divalent compounds, etc.

Facts Related to Alkaline Earth Metals

There are various facts related to Alkaline earth metals, some of the important ones are as follows:

• The name alkaline metals owes to their oxides that simply give basic alkaline solutions. These metals melt at high temperature and remain solids in heated atmospheres.
• The alkaline metals show good trend in their properties in the periodic table, with well-defined homologous behavior in going down the group.
• Some alkaline metals like Be and Mg, they show a distinguishable flame color , brick-red for Ca (Calcium) , Magenta-Red for Sr (Strontium) , Green for Ba (Barium) and crimson red for Ra (radium).
• The metals coming in this group show patterns in their electronic configuration, especially the behavior of them in their outermost shells, which results in the trend in chemical behavior.
• The alkaline metals are mostly Silver colored, soft metals, which react readily reactions with halogens.
• Alkaline Metal like Beryllium is highly toxic, it is rarely available to biological systems, and it has no known role in living organisms.
• Other Alkaline metal like Magnesium and calcium are essential to all known living things. They are involved in many roles like in some cellular processes, Mg functions as the active centre of the enzymes and Ca salts takes structural roles.
• Strontium and barium have lower availably in the atmosphere. They play very important roles in marine aquatic life, especially hard corals. These two are also used in medicines. Strontium is used to build the exoskeleton.
• The last metal that is Radium has a low availability and is very highly radioactive.

Conclusion

Alkaline earth metals are of very keen importance to us. These metals are highly important for the automobile industries due to their structure qualities. These metals are of great concern, as they are also included in building machines and other important equipment.