The family of elements to which sodium belongs is :

alkali metals

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alkaline earth metals

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halogens

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inert gases

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Solution

The correct option is B alkali metals
Sodium belongs to alkali metals. Its electronic configuration is $(2, 8, 1)$ . We can deduce that it lies in $3$ rd period and $1$ st group.

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