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  4. Compared with the alkaline earth metals, the alkali metals exhibit:

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Q. Compared with the alkaline earth metals, the alkali metals exhibit:

JIPMERJIPMER 2002The s-Block Elements

Solution:

Alkali metals have lower ionization energy in comparisoun to the alkaline earth metals. The reason is that their atomic size is greater and hence, it is easy to pull out an electron from outer-most shell, hence the required energy (lonisation energy) is less.