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Grade 12Inorganic Chemistry

Why Li do not react with ethyne to form ethynide unlike other alkali metals in the group 1

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10 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Vikas TU
10 Years ago
The same answer i wrote three minutes ago.
However the reduction capability increases within the group from li to na to k, rb, cs etcpp. Cs will lose its valence electron very easily