Why are the alkali metals and the halogens among the most reactive elements on the periodic table

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Nadia Graves

13 July, 01:47

Why are the alkali metals and the halogens among the most reactive elements on the periodic table

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Patrick Maldonado · Answer 1

Because the alkali metals are the group 1 metals, they have only 1 valence electron that they want to lose, and the halogens are the group 17 nonmetals, they want to gain 1 valence electron to become stable.