Answer:
The highly unstable pure sodium or potassium wants to lose an electron and this splits the water atom, producing a negatively charged hydroxide ion and hydrogen and forming an explosive gas that ignites.
Explanation:
We are going to use table salt, NaCl as an example.
(s) = solid, eg the salt you put on your food is a crystalline solid.
(l) = liquid, if you melt salt it take on a liquid form
(g) = gaseous, if you put enough energy in the salt will turn into a gas.
(aq) = aqueous, meaning in water or another solvent. If you put some table salt in water and stir it, it will dissolve, the NaCl molecules dont get destroyed but they dissolve becoming part of the liquid.
A mixture in which composition is constant throughout the mixture is said to be homogeneous mixture.
Now, oil and vinegar dressing is not considered as a homogeneous mixture because composition is not uniform.
Concrete is made up of three components. Thus, composition is not uniform, so it is not a homogeneous mixture.
A mixture of salt and pepper, when salt is mixed in pepper then the mixture is not uniform as white flecks of salt and black flecks of pepper can be seen in the mixture. Thus, it is not a homogeneous mixture.
Salt water is uniform mixture. Thus, it is a homogeneous mixture.
Thus, salt water is the correct answer.
The ion that will be formed by the selenium atom shown below when it has a stable set of valence electrons is D) Se2-.
