An element is a solid at room temperature but soft enough to be cut with an ordinary knife. when placed in water, the element reacts violently. what element is it? an element is a solid at room temperature but soft enough to be cut with an ordinary knife. when placed in water, the element reacts violently. what element is it?

while cooking a piece of 1/2 pound beef steak, a cast iron pan (2.4kg in weight) was heated 260 celsius.

the seeing the electronic configuration we can say that the element is fluorine.

fluorine is the most electronegative element in the periodic table.

but by only seeing the configuration we cannot say about its reactivity because we don't know if its configuration after excitation or by addition of electrons.

but if not then, it is the lightest halogen and exists as a highly toxic pale yellow diatomic gas at standard conditions. as the most electronegative element, it is extremely reactive: almost all other elements, including some noble gases, form compounds with fluorine.