metals participate in two types of single-displacement reactions. a reactive metal can displace gas either from water or from an aqueous acid. a reactive metal can also displace the ion of a reactive metal from solution.

Draw the lewis structure for the trisulfur s3 molecule. be sure to include all resonance structures that satisfy the octet rule.

With the largest atoms and the smallest number of valence electrons and with the smallest atoms and the greatest number of valence electrons are the most reactive. a. nonmetals; metals b. nonmetals; transition elements c. transition elements; metals d. metals; nonmetals

The comparison of the number of atoms in a copper coin the size of a penny with the number of people on earth is made to illustrate which of the following? a. that atoms are indivisible b. that atoms are very small c. that atoms are very large d. that in a copper penny, there is one atom for every person on earth