why active metals like potassium and calcium are stored in kerosene???
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All metals in that group are very reactive with water, including moisture in the atmosphere. You may have seen videos where people have thrown chunks of sodium metal into bodies of water. Potassium reacts even more violently. ... Sodium and potassiummetals are kept in kerosene or in dry mineral oil.
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Active metals like potassium and Calcium are stored in kerosene because they are highly reactive metals and they react with Oxygen to form metallic oxides.
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