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Any chemists wanna include something about water and alkali metals? I know that it's a common demo in high school classes to put sodium in water and watch it blow. I just don't remember the specifics. Surely someone knows them. -- User:comrade009
What does 'excepting' mean in this article? It is not the proper word.
Main Entry: 1ex·cept Pronunciation: ik-'sept Variant(s): also ex·cept·ing /-'sep-ti[ng]/ Function: preposition
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I think it should be 'including' and I will change it as such.
I'd actually say "alkali" should be redirected to base (chemistry), as alkali more correctly and commonly refers to that. Alkali metals are just metals that form alkalis. -- ES2 20:28, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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does any1 know why alkali metals & halogens are really active? NO
The lead sentence currently:
The alkali metals are a group (column) in the periodic table consisting of the chemical elements lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), caesium (Cs), and francium (Fr).
What about changing it to reflect the singular form of the title, as follows?
An alkali metal is any one of the six chemical elements in the group (column) in the periodic table consisting of lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), caesium (Cs), and francium (Fr).
Any objections?
-- В²C ☎ 21:32, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
If we are going to worry about there being more than six alkali metals, then the undiscovered 119 is not the only problem. We also have to mention that hydrogen is excluded even though it is in the first column. However both hydrogen and element 119 are discussed further down in the intro, so we just have to word the opening sentence correctly without giving all the explanation which is further down.
How about: An alkali metal is a chemical element in Group 1 of the periodic table, except for hydrogen which has different chemical properties. To date six alkali metals are known: lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), caesium (Cs), and francium (Fr). Dirac66 ( talk) 00:13, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Watchers, please, look at talk:Group_(periodic_table) #Group_1. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 07:35, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Less that three years ago, there was much discussion on renaming this article. The discussion is still here in the talk page. Yet someone now does the rename with no more discussion, and (I presume) not reading the discussion? Gah4 ( talk) 20:05, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
The article states, "Today the largest producers of caesium, for example the Tanco Mine in Manitoba, Canada, produce rubidium as by-product from pollucite. " The source is listed as a report from 2003.
I believe this is wrong.
This report from Jan 2022 states, " Production in Namibia ceased in the early 2000s, followed by the Tanco Mine in Canada shutting down and later being sold after a mine collapse in 2015"
I would remove the reference to the largest producer (as it is not the Tanco Mine) until someone comes up with a better referecne as to who actually produces the most Rubidium. 110.136.219.34 ( talk) 08:30, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
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Any chemists wanna include something about water and alkali metals? I know that it's a common demo in high school classes to put sodium in water and watch it blow. I just don't remember the specifics. Surely someone knows them. -- User:comrade009
What does 'excepting' mean in this article? It is not the proper word.
Main Entry: 1ex·cept Pronunciation: ik-'sept Variant(s): also ex·cept·ing /-'sep-ti[ng]/ Function: preposition
From www.m-w.com
I think it should be 'including' and I will change it as such.
I'd actually say "alkali" should be redirected to base (chemistry), as alkali more correctly and commonly refers to that. Alkali metals are just metals that form alkalis. -- ES2 20:28, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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does any1 know why alkali metals & halogens are really active? NO
The lead sentence currently:
The alkali metals are a group (column) in the periodic table consisting of the chemical elements lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), caesium (Cs), and francium (Fr).
What about changing it to reflect the singular form of the title, as follows?
An alkali metal is any one of the six chemical elements in the group (column) in the periodic table consisting of lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), caesium (Cs), and francium (Fr).
Any objections?
-- В²C ☎ 21:32, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
If we are going to worry about there being more than six alkali metals, then the undiscovered 119 is not the only problem. We also have to mention that hydrogen is excluded even though it is in the first column. However both hydrogen and element 119 are discussed further down in the intro, so we just have to word the opening sentence correctly without giving all the explanation which is further down.
How about: An alkali metal is a chemical element in Group 1 of the periodic table, except for hydrogen which has different chemical properties. To date six alkali metals are known: lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), caesium (Cs), and francium (Fr). Dirac66 ( talk) 00:13, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Watchers, please, look at talk:Group_(periodic_table) #Group_1. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 07:35, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Less that three years ago, there was much discussion on renaming this article. The discussion is still here in the talk page. Yet someone now does the rename with no more discussion, and (I presume) not reading the discussion? Gah4 ( talk) 20:05, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
The article states, "Today the largest producers of caesium, for example the Tanco Mine in Manitoba, Canada, produce rubidium as by-product from pollucite. " The source is listed as a report from 2003.
I believe this is wrong.
This report from Jan 2022 states, " Production in Namibia ceased in the early 2000s, followed by the Tanco Mine in Canada shutting down and later being sold after a mine collapse in 2015"
I would remove the reference to the largest producer (as it is not the Tanco Mine) until someone comes up with a better referecne as to who actually produces the most Rubidium. 110.136.219.34 ( talk) 08:30, 29 October 2022 (UTC)