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24 February, 01:05

Not counting hydrogen, why is it that elects in column 1 of the periodic table do not tend to react with each other?

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  1. 24 February, 01:24
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    It tends to be very difficult to react because they all have 1 electron and want to have a full valence state. To achieve this full state, they follow the octet rule and give away their electron almost every single time. Since they would need 7 more electrons to be full via accepting electrons, they prefer to give them away. Hydrogen does not act like this because it doesn't follow the octet rule and only needs 2 electrons to be full.
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