Science, asked by sue4567, 8 months ago

Are metals electropositive or electronegative...?? And what is the reason behind..??

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Answered by khansuggi

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Metals are electropositive elements because they can form positive ions by losing electrons.

Because metals readily loses electrons to form cations while non-metals does not lose electrons easily (in comparison with metals) in forming cation. So metals are considered to be more electropositive and non-metals readily takes electrons from metals are considered to be more electronegative.

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