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- IUPAC group number
- IUPAC group number1 Name by elementlithium group Trivial namealkali metals CAS group number (US, pattern A-B-A)IA old IUPAC number (Europe, pattern A-B)IA
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Overview
- Chemical elements Chemical element
- Lithium
- Sodium
- Potassium
- Rubidium
- Caesium
- Francium
- Hydrogen
- Group 1 Group (periodic table)
- S-block
- Periodic table
- S-orbital
- Group trends Periodic trends
- Homologous Homologous series
- Shiny Lustre (mineralogy)
- Soft Hardness
- Reactive Reactivity (chemistry)
- Metals
- Standard temperature and pressure
- Outermost electron Valence electron
- Cations
- Charge Electric charge
- Oxidation
- Oxygen
- Nitrogen
- Salts
- Abundance Abundance of the chemical elements
- Radioactivity
- Traces Trace radioisotope
- Decay chains Decay chain
History
- Sodium chloride
- Potash
- Georg Ernst Stahl
- Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Humphry Davy
- Caustic potash
- Electrolysis
- Voltaic pile
- Caustic soda
- Petalite
- Al Aluminium
- Si Silicon
- José Bonifácio de Andrada
- Utö, Sweden
- Johan August Arfwedson
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius
- Detected Discovery of the chemical elements
- Ore
- Carbonate Lithium carbonate
- Soluble in water Solubility
- Greek Ancient Greek
- Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
- Spectroscope
- Robert Bunsen
- Gustav Kirchhoff
- Mineral water
- Bad Dürkheim
- Heidelberg
- Lepidolite
Occurrence
- Oddo–Harkins rule
- Noble gases Noble gas
- Supernovae Supernova
- Stellar nucleosynthesis
- Big Bang nucleosynthesis
- Beryllium
- Boron
- Nucleons Nucleon
- Triple-alpha process
- Carbon
- Formation and evolution of the Solar System
- Natural history of the Earth History of Earth
- Sulfur
- Nickel
- Planetary differentiation
- Lithophiles Goldschmidt classification
- Silica
- Incompatible elements Incompatible element
- Ionic radii
- Most common elements in Earth's crust Abundance of elements in Earth's crust
- Halite
- Amphibole
- Cryolite
- Nitratine
- Zeolite
- Utah
- Great Salt Lake
- Dead Sea
- Micromolar
- Ferromagnesium Ferromagnesium?action=edit&redlink=1
Properties
- Electron configuration
- Metallic bonding
- Densities
- Melting Melting point
- Boiling points Boiling point
- Heats of sublimation Heat of sublimation
- Vaporisation Heat of vaporization
- Dissociation Dissociation (chemistry)
- Body-centered cubic
- Flame colours Flame test
- Thermal Thermal conductivity
- Electrical conductivity
- Electronegativity
- Reduction potentials Reduction potential
- Hydration energy
- Strontium
- Barium
- Lanthanides Lanthanide
- Europium
- Ytterbium
- Mineral oil
- Kerosene
- Alkali metal halides Alkali metal halide
- Ionic crystalline Ionic crystal
- Soluble
- Lithium fluoride
- Hydroxides Hydroxide
- Effective nuclear charge
- Electrons Electron
- Alcohols Alcohol (chemistry)
Periodic trends
- Atomic radii
- Shielding Shielding effect
- Electron shell
- Nuclear charge
- Atomic number
- Ionisation energy
- Molecule
- Mole Mole (unit)
- Main group elements Main group element
- Relativistic Relativistic quantum chemistry
- Atomisation energies Atomisation energy
- Chemical reactions Chemical reaction
- Metallic bonds Metallic bond
- Delocalised electrons
- Activation energy
- Chemical property
- Atom
- Functional group
- Electron density
- Chlorine
- Ionic bond
- Lithium iodide
- Organic solvents Organic solvent
- Alkali halide
- Alkali metal hydroxide
- State State of matter
- Vapour pressure
- Crystal structure
- Body-centred cubic
- Room temperature
Compounds
- Aqueous solution
- Effervescence
- Coulomb explosion
- Alkoxides Alkoxide
- Carbon dioxide
- Carbonates Carbonate
- Bicarbonates Bicarbonate
- Hydrogen sulfide
- Sulfide
- Bisulfides Bisulfide
- Thiols Thiol
- Aluminium Aluminium oxide
- Zinc Zinc oxide
- Tin Tin(IV) oxide
- Lead Lead dioxide
- Silicon dioxide
- Silicate glass
- Intermetallic compounds Intermetallic compound
- Sodium amalgams Sodium amalgam
- Mercury Mercury (element)
- CsAu
- NaK Sodium–potassium alloy
- Eutectic mixture
- Indium
- Conductors Electrical conductor
- Semiconductors Semiconductor
- Zintl anions Zintl phase
- Diamond cubic
- Borides Boride
- Deltahedral Deltahedron
Representative reactions of alkali metals
Extensions
- Period 8 element
- Congeners Congener (chemistry)
- Metallic Metallic radius
- Electron affinity
- Polarisability
- Pm Picometer
- Oxidation states Oxidation state
- Aufbau principle
- Unbinilium
- Islands of stability Island of stability
Pseudo-alkali metals
- Polyatomic ions Polyatomic ion
- Metallic hydrogen
- Dilithium
- KJ/mol
- Pressures Pressure
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Electrical resistivity
- Hydron Hydron (chemistry)
- Fm Femtometre
- Acid-base chemistry
- Electrostatic
- Ammonium
- GPa Pascal (unit)
- Ice giants Ice giant
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Alkylammonium
- Quaternary ammonium cations Quaternary ammonium cation
- Phosphonium
- Arsonium
- Stibonium Stibonium?action=edit&redlink=1
- Cobaltocene
- Metallocene
- Cobalt
- Ferrocene
- 18-electron rule
- Decamethylcobaltocene
- Inductive effect
- Rhodium
Production and isolation
- Salt flats Salt pan (geology)
- Uyuni Salar de Uyuni
- Solar evaporation ponds Salt evaporation pond
- Silicate
- Sulfuric acid
- Hydroxide Aluminium hydroxide
- Hydrochloric acid
- Calcium chloride
- Fractional distillation
- Pyrolysis
- Mineral springs Mineral spring
- Brines Brine
- Potassium chloride
- Seabed
- Downs cell
- Sodium azide
- Sylvite
- Potassium hydroxide
- Seawater
- Caesium azide
- Caesium hydroxide
- Biotites Biotite
- Feldspar
- Vacuum tubes Vacuum tube
- Getter
- Tanco Mine
- Fractional crystallisation Fractional crystallization (chemistry)
- Alum
- SO4 Sulfate
- H2O Water
Applications
- Range of lithium-based batteries Lithium battery
- Lithium stearate
- Fatty acids Fatty acid
- Sodium-vapour lamps Sodium-vapor lamp
- Zirconium
- Fast breeder nuclear reactors Fast breeder nuclear reactor
- Cross-section Cross-section (physics)
- Sodium-ion batteries
- GRAS
- Fertilisers Fertiliser
- PH
- Potassium nitrate
- Potassium permanganate
- Fireworks Firework
- Atomic structure
- Spectroscopy
- Energy levels Energy level
- Coupling constants Coupling constant
- Weak interaction
- Quantum theory Quantum mechanics
Biological role and precautions
- Halocarbons Halocarbon
- Extinguishers Fire extinguisher
- Fume hood
- Isopropanol
- Argon
- Mood stabiliser
- Psychiatry
- Bipolar disorder
- Manic-depression
- Poisons Poison
- Central nervous system
- Trace element
- Animal cells Cell (biology)
- Pickling
- Jerky
- Dietary Reference Intake
- Cation
- Concentration
- Electric potential
- Membrane potential
- Ion transporter
- Cell membrane
- Action potential
- Neurotransmission
- Hyperkalemia
- Lethal injection
- Metabolism
- Hypokalemia
- Arrhythmia
- Median lethal dose
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Nodes616
Edges615
Triples391
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Density0.003247
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related to Nitrides and pnictides · 38
Alkali metal → All, As3, Bismuthides, However, Indeed, K3N, K3P, K3P11, K3P7, K4P3, K4P6, K5P4, KP, KP10, KP15, LiAs, Lithium, M3As, M3Pn, MSb
related to Compounds with the group 14 elements · 34
Alkali metal → Alkali, Apart, Cs, Ge2, Ge4, Ge9, K4Sn9, KC24, KC36, KC48, KC60, KC8, Li2C2, Lithium, M4Si4, MC24, MC36, MC48, MC6, MC60
related to Ammonium and derivatives · 19
Alkali metal → Ammonium, AsH, Cs, For, Furthermore, GPa, HI, In, It, Neptune, NH, NR, Other, PH, SbH, Tetraalkylammonium, The, Under, Uranus
related to Copper, silver, and gold · 19
Alkali metal → Ag, Au, Chemically, Cu, Group IB, However, IA, IB, II, III, In Mendeleev's, Mendeleev's, Physically, Soon, The, Their, They, Transition, VIII
related to Compounds with the group 13 elements · 18
Alkali metal → Boron, For, Furthermore, KB6, LiB10, Na, NaB15, NaB6, NaTl, Nevertheless, Rubidium, The, This, Tl, Under, Various, Wade's, Zintl
related to Thallium · 17
Alkali metal → Additionally, Ag, At, Dmitri Mendeleev's, England, Europe, However, It, Julius Lothar Meyer's, Mendeleev's, Meyer's, Thallium, The, Tl, TlF, TlI, While Tl
related to Oxides and chalcogenides · 16
Alkali metal → All, Because, In, Li, Lithium, M2O3, MO3, O2, Potassium, Rubidium, Sodium, The, Their, They, This, Under
related to Halides, hydrides, and pseudohalides · 14
Alkali metal → All, K3BrO, K4Br2O, Li, LiF, MX, Na3ClO, Na4Br2O, Na4I2O, Other, Ternary, The, These, They
related to Ammonia solutions · 12
Alkali metal → At, Charles, Humphry Davy, In, Kraus, M2, MNH2, Similar, Solvated, The, These, Weyl
related to Compounds · 12
Alkali metal → For, Na, Na2O, Na2S, Na3As, Na3Bi, Na3P, Na3Sb, NaCl, The, These, This
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alkali metals metal sodium caesium lithium potassium group rubidium form electron due also elements hydrogen compounds water atomic ions known
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| Alkali metal | IUPAC group number | IUPAC group number1 Name by elementlithium group Trivial namealkali metals CAS group number (US, pattern A-B-A)IA old IUPAC number (Europe, pattern A-B)IA | 1.00 | infobox |
| Utah's Great Salt Lake | instance of | which still occurs now in places | 0.80 | text |
| the Dead Sea | instance of | which still occurs now in places | 0.80 | text |
| Ge2 | instance of | ions | 0.80 | text |
| Sn4 | instance of | and sometimes with more complex Zintl ions | 0.80 | text |
| ionisation energy | instance of | Group 14 is also a good fit in terms of thermodynamic properties | 0.80 | text |
| electron affinity | instance of | Group 14 is also a good fit in terms of thermodynamic properties | 0.80 | text |
| but hydrogen cannot be tetravalent | instance of | Group 14 is also a good fit in terms of thermodynamic properties | 0.80 | text |
| HI | instance of | to stabilise very large and very easily polarisable anions | 0.80 | text |
| Canada | instance of | found extensively in places | 0.80 | text |
| Russia | instance of | found extensively in places | 0.80 | text |
| Belarus | instance of | found extensively in places | 0.80 | text |
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