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Use what you know about valence electrons and the octet rule to explain why alkali
metals are more likely to lose electrons than gain them.

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Alkaline metals, for example, would find it much easier to lose electrons than gain electrons, so they are not very electronegative. ... This is also the reason why metals have a high electrical conductivity (i.e. their electrons are can easily move from atom to atom
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