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Why do alkali metal and alkali earth metal show high degree of reactivity?

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Both alkali metals and alkaline earth metals ae highly reactive as The high reactivity arises due to their low ionization energies and high negative values of their standard electrode potentials.
also their tendancy to remove free 1electron(alkali) and 2 electron(alkaline earth metals)
from the outer shell.

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