Caesium is a metal with very low melting points. But , we still call it metal as it satisfies the other properties of a metal. The metals Sodium and Potassium does not satisfy many properties of being a metal. But still they are metals..... Why!!!!!!

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Because it can lose electron.metal is any substance because it can lose electron

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