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Posted by Ishika ? 5 years, 6 months ago
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Meghna Thapar 5 years, 6 months ago
Generally metals acts as reducing agents. Because metals easily release electrons from their outermost shell to obtain stable octet configuration.
For example sodium metal atomic number is 11 its electronic configuration is 2,8,1.
To obtain octet configuration or noble gas configuration it easily releases one electron from its outer most shell. Apart from this metals has low ionization potentials ,low energy is required to remove electrons from their valence shell.
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Ishika ? 5 years, 6 months ago
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