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Among Lithium Sodium and potassium which element is highily reactive and why?

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Potassium is highly reactive among lithium, sodium and potassium.This is due to the large size of potassium than sodium and lithium because of which the ionization energy of potassium is less than sodium and lithium. As a result of potassium can more easily loose electron and is therefore quite reactive.


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