What happens when:
(i) Lithium reacts with air
(ii) Lithium reacts with water
(iii) Lithium reacts with halogen
(iv) Lithium reacts with acids?
Account for the following:
(i) Lithium can not form monovalent cation (Li+) easily.
(ii)Â Lithium iodide is more covalent than lithium fluoride.
What difficulities arise in the extraction of sodium? How these difficulties are overcome?
What happens when:
(i)Â sodium reacts with hydrogen halide,
(ii)Â sodium reacts with acetylene,
(iii)Â sodium is heated with hydrogen and
(iv)Â sodium is treated with mercury ?
(i) When sodium is treated with hydrogen halide, hydrogen gas is evolved.
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(ii) Sodium reacts with acetylene to form sodium acetylide.
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(iii) When sodium is heated with hydrogen, sodium hydride is produced.Â
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(iv) When sodium is treated with mercury, sodium amalgam is formed as the product.
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