Explain why fluorine is the most reactive nonmetal and why cesium is the most reactive metal.

Question

Explain why fluorine is the most reactive nonmetal and why cesium is the most reactive metal.

Answer 1

Because Fluorine is a *****...

so like you do anything and it reacts.  It's really pissy...prolly 'cause it go such a S****y name and it's all metalic so it can't have s*x...

Cesium is the most reactive because it's so flaky it voted for George Bush.  And it just keeps goin' on and on about ****.  Man, you do anything to Cesium and gets to be a pissy *****.

Don't mess with either one of them...

uraniams the way to go, I always say.

Answer 2

It's all about how easily they form ions and how stable those ions are.

Everything want the electron arrangement of a noble gas.  To get that, fluorine needs to gain an electron.  Because its nucleus is not shielded by layers of electrons and an additional one would be added near to the positive nucleus, it's easy for fluorine to get an extra one....easier for it than for any other non-metal.

With cesium, it's looking to shed an electron to achieve a noble gas configuration.  Because it's one valence electron is so far from the positive nucleus and because of all the other shells of electrons shielding it, it's very easy for cesium to lose that electron; easier in fact than for any other metal except francium, which IS the most reactive metal.