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Grade 10Inorganic Chemistry

the nature of oxide of the alkaline earth metal in the period? can u plZz temme the ans fo dz

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12 Years agoGrade 10
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12 Years ago
The alkaline earth metals are a group of chemical elements in the periodic table with very similar properties. They are all shiny, silvery-white, somewhat reactive metals at standard temperature and pressure and readily lose their two outermost electrons to form cations with charge 2+ and an oxidation state, or oxidation number of +2, In the modern IUPAC nomenclature, the alkaline earth metals comprise the group 2 elements.

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