why lithium has a strongest reducing agent among alkali metals
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though lithium has the highest ionization energy, yet lithium is strongest reducing agent among alkali metals, because of its largest heat of hydration which sufficiently exceeds the ionization energy.
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Lithium is good reducing agent among alkali metals in aqueous solution because it has very small size leading to high energy of hydration and hence this hydration energy compensate the high ionization energy and thereby making lithium very good reducing agent in aqueous solution.
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