Students find that water can be created in a lab by burning hydrogen gas in air. They conclude that water is not a compound because only hydrogen is used to form the water. What is wrong with their conclusion?

Explanation:

Their conclusion is wrong because water is not obtained from hydrogen gas alone.

The reaction for the production of water is given as;

2H2 + O2  --> 2H2O

They fail to take account of the oxygen that came as a result of burning hydrogen gas in air.

alkaline metals are lithium, sodium, rubidium, potassium, cesium and francium.

alkali metals have electronegativity from 0.7 to 1, lowest in periodic table of elements, which means that alkali metals (i group in periodic table) has positive oxidation number in compounds.

electronegativity is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom to attract a shared pair of electrons towards itself.

alkaline metals (far left in main group) have lowest ionizations energy and easy remove valence electrons,

for example, potassium is the alkali metal and has a single valence electron in the outer electron shell.

electron configuration of potassium is: ₁₉k 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶4s¹.

they can not exist alone in nature, because they are very reactive.

answer by yourhope:

how do models compare to real-world objects?

d. most models represent a real-world object in a simpler way.

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