When copper (II) sulfate pentahydrate (CuSO4+5H, O) is heated the water is driven off leaving behind solid copper (II) sulfate (CuSO4) according to the equation below CuSO4.5H,0 CuSO4 + 5H, O Describe how a chemist should set up his or her stoichiometric calculation to predict the mass of CuSO4 that forms when a specified mass of CuSO4•5H.0 is heated ​

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.

"record the time to complete a chemical reaction" would most likely be part of a lab procedure.