Acids are substances that surround us in our everyday life. The uses of acids range from providing essential nutrients for our bodies to dissolving metals. Some acids are safe to handle with our bare hands or even use in food preparation. Other acids will severely burn human skin. Why these substances can all be acids and yet have such different properties?

Strong and Weak Acids

Explanation:

Acids, also known as electrolytes, are compounds that break down into cations (positively charged ions) and anions when dissolved in water (negatively charged ions). Solid Electrolytes (Acids) fully ionize,

Whereas weak electrolytes (acids) only partly ionize.

c- cold periods in earth's history during which glaciers covered much of the surface.

explanation:

alkaline metals are lithium, sodium, rubidium, potassium, cesium and francium.

alkali metals have electronegativity from 0.7 to 1, lowest in periodic table of elements, which means that alkali metals (i group in periodic table) has positive oxidation number in compounds.

electronegativity is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom to attract a shared pair of electrons towards itself.

alkaline metals (far left in main group) have lowest ionizations energy and easy remove valence electrons,

for example, potassium is the alkali metal and has a single valence electron in the outer electron shell.

electron configuration of potassium is: ₁₉k 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶4s¹.

they can not exist alone in nature, because they are very reactive.