Alkaline Earth Metal
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Introduction
Characteristics
- silver colored, soft metals
- react readily with halogens to form ionic salts
- react with water (not as rapidly as the alkali metals) to form strongly alkaline hydroxides
- alkaline earth metals have 2 electrons in their valence shell, thus a tendency lose two electrons to form divalent cations
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References
- Wikipedia: Alkaline earth metal [1]
