The group of elements belonging to the leftmost side in the periodic table is called the group 1 element and corresponds to hydrogen, lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, and francium. Among ...

We always think that water is the perfect way to quench fires and to cool down metals, but that’s not always true, because water doesn’t deal so well with all the elements. When alkali metals like ...

For decades, science enthusiasts have delighted at the famously energetic way sodium and potassium explode on contact with water. Researchers in Europe now show that the long-accepted explanation for ...