Time Remaining 1 hour 16 minutes 43 seconds01:16:43Item 19 Time Remaining 1 hour 16 minutes 43 seconds01:16:43Calculate the mass percent of HOCH2CH2OH in a solution made by dissolving 3.2 g of HOCH2CH2OH in 43.5g of water. a. 2.9%
b. 6.9%
c. 7.4%

alkaline metals are lithium, sodium, rubidium, potassium, cesium and francium.

alkali metals have electronegativity from 0.7 to 1, lowest in periodic table of elements, which means that alkali metals (i group in periodic table) has positive oxidation number in compounds.

electronegativity is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom to attract a shared pair of electrons towards itself.

alkaline metals (far left in main group) have lowest ionizations energy and easy remove valence electrons,

for example, potassium is the alkali metal and has a single valence electron in the outer electron shell.

electron configuration of potassium is: ₁₉k 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶4s¹.

they can not exist alone in nature, because they are very reactive.

the answer for sodium is 0.186

the answer for rubidium is 0.251