Some magnesium powder was mixed with some copper( II)oxide and heated strongly. there was a victorious reaction producing a lot of sparks and a bright flash of light. 1) name the products of the reaction
2)write a balanced equation for the reaction.

pl help!!!

Reaction:

Magnesium is a stronger reducing agent than copper and is thus able to reduce copper(II) oxide.

Products of the reaction: Magnesium oxide and metallic copper.

See below.

Explanation:

1)  Magnesium oxide MgO  and copper metal (Cu).

2) Mg + CuO --->  MgO + Cu.

alkaline metals are lithium, sodium, rubidium, potassium, cesium and francium.

alkali metals have electronegativity from 0.7 to 1, lowest in periodic table of elements, which means that alkali metals (i group in periodic table) has positive oxidation number in compounds.

electronegativity is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom to attract a shared pair of electrons towards itself.

alkaline metals (far left in main group) have lowest ionizations energy and easy remove valence electrons,

for example, potassium is the alkali metal and has a single valence electron in the outer electron shell.

electron configuration of potassium is: ₁₉k 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶4s¹.

they can not exist alone in nature, because they are very reactive.