Which statement is correct? Natural processes happen spontaneously when they decrease the entropy of a system because entropy increase is counteracted by the flow of enthalpy from high temperatures to low temperatures.
Among solids, liquids, and gases, solids generally have the highest entropy because solid particles are the least mobile, and entropy is inversely related to mobility of particles.
Any change that increases the number of particles in a system increases entropy because it increases the randomness and disorder of the system.
Dissolving table salt (NaCl) in water leads to a decrease in entropy because salt particles, which are numerous individual crystals in solid form, become a homogenous solution in water.

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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.