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Reactivity Documentation

Metals, Less Reactive

mixed with

Metals, Alkali, Very Active

Summary

Details

Metals, Less Reactive is a reactive group.
Metals, Alkali, Very Active is a reactive group.

Reactivity Predictions (for each pair of reactive groups)

Metals, Alkali, Very Active mixed with
Metals, Less Reactive

Hazard Predictions

Most combinations of alkali metals and less reactive metals only react at high temperatures or under special conditions (e.g. dissolving metal reduction in liquid ammonia), or form alloys. However, some exceptions were found:

Alkali metals react vigorously with tellurium (Hoffmann, J. E., King, M. G., Carapella, S. C., Oldfield, J. E. and Putnam, R. D. 2011. Tellurium and Tellurium Compounds. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 1-30. (Online)).

Lithium reacts violently with vanadium (Baroch, E. F. and Updated by Staff 2006. Vanadium and Vanadium Alloys. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. (Online)).

Lithium and sodium react with arsenic at high temperatures to form metal arsenides (Pascal. P. 1963. Nouveau Traité de Chimie Minérale. Vol. 2, Part 1, p. 116, 809. Masson et Cie.).

Alkali metals form alloys with mercury, bismuth, and thallium (Pascal. P. 1963. Nouveau Traité de Chimie Minérale. Vol. 2, Part 1, p. 38. Masson et Cie.; DeVito, S. C. and Brooks, W. E. 2005. Mercury. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. (Online); Breunig, H. J. 2002. Bismuth Compounds. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. (Online); Micke, H. and Wolf, H. U. 2000. Thallium and Thallium Compounds. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry).

Potassium forms an alloy with tungsten (Lassner, E., Schubert, W.-D., Lüderitz, E. and Wolf, H. U. 2000. Tungsten, Tungsten Alloys, and Tungsten Compounds. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. (Online)).

Sodium and lithium form alloys with lead (Carr, D. S. 2000. Lead Compounds. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. (Online); King, M., Ramachandran, V., Prengaman, R. D., DeVito, S. C., Breen, J. and Updated by Staff 2005. Lead and Lead Alloys. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. (Online)).