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Lithium reacts less vigorously with water than sodium. Does high hydration enthalpy and atomic size influence this???? If so, how?

Lithium reacts less vigorously with water than sodium. Does high hydration enthalpy and atomic size influence this???? If so, how?

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Vikas TU
14149 Points
7 years ago
Two factors governed this.
First density the lithium density is half of that water and therfore it floats and require heats slowly to melt it.
Second, Its melting point is too much high for it to melt.
But in case of Na it is inversed in respect of MP.

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