Why is sodium is light while iron is heavy?
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Sodium is an alkali metal and is very soft and can cut through knife as they hv weak intermolecular attraction leading weak metallic atom atom bonding while Iron is a transition metal which is very hard and great energy to cut or break apart iron has density of 7.9g/cm3 and sodium has density of 0.97gm/cm3 hence float on water
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