Are you sure you don't mean Sodium or mebbe Potassium (I think Lithium would be a little TOO reactive to stumble across in a science class)? I don't remember Mg doing much in water... Lights up like a SOB if you heat it though :D
... and anyway, Titanium > all. I love it so much that I had the marrow in my right femur replaced with it (admittedly not a personal choice at the time though) :D
Well, it does react with water, though you do need a flame to get things started. =3
And I guess Titanium is pretty cool. Though what's really bitchin' is Magnesium-Titanium alloy. I've got a few bits of it laying around my room somewhere.
Indeed! Sorry, long time since I did Chem ;D Lithium WILL still react in water, just not as impressive as Na/K and the OTHERS you wouldn't see in a normal school-type lab :)
Os is a heavy transition metal an not really related with alkali metals. It is poisenous (oxidizes easily and is then very volatile) and give some nice catalysts. And very expensive. Francium's reactivity is only supposed to be even more extreme than Cs but Fr is far too rare to tell anything. Some single g spread in the whole earth.
They were talking about Titanium, so I had to bring out another metal. I know Ti's not a transition metal, but Tungsten is. And part of the reason there's not much Fr is because it's got a half-life of only some minutes before it becomes Radon.
Reactivity of solid metals:
Be < Mg < Ca < Sr < Ba = about Li < Na < K < Rb < Cs
Mg once lighted burns underwater while Li and heavier alkali metals will react less or more violently with water. Sodium will hiss and bubble and get all hot while Cs will right make an explosion. Cs also is self-combustible in air. Instantly.
Tungsten > Magnesium. Don't be a bitch. D:
I'll be a bitch if I want to! D=<
... and anyway, Titanium > all. I love it so much that I had the marrow in my right femur replaced with it (admittedly not a personal choice at the time though) :D
And I guess Titanium is pretty cool. Though what's really bitchin' is Magnesium-Titanium alloy. I've got a few bits of it laying around my room somewhere.
And you lie anyway. Osmium > all. Or at least denser than all. :P
Maybe I should have said Iridium instead.
Be < Mg < Ca < Sr < Ba = about Li < Na < K < Rb < Cs
Mg once lighted burns underwater while Li and heavier alkali metals will react less or more violently with water. Sodium will hiss and bubble and get all hot while Cs will right make an explosion. Cs also is self-combustible in air. Instantly.
so metal, rock fucking hard ^^; ether way
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wait were you thinking something else O.o
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