What Metals React With Water to Produce Hydrogen?
flasks image by Wolszczak from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a07/40/gp/metals-react-water-produce-hydrogen-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); Most alkali and alkaline earth metals produce hydrogen when mixed with water. Most alkali metals and alkaline earth metals react with water to produce hydrogen. The alkali metals comprise Group 1 of the periodic table, and include lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium and francium. The alkaline earth metals comprise Group 2, and include beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium and radium. Beryllium, however, does not react with water, and francium is much too rare and unstable to be relevant to this question. When mixed with water, the alkaline earth metals generally produce a weaker reaction than the alkali metals. Lithium Lithium’s reaction with water is relatively slow and gentle, because its density is roughly half that of water. It fizzes
