Question

Where are the most reactive nonmetal elements found on the periodic table?

Answer 1

Answer;

At the top of group 17

Explanation;

Reactivity in chemistry deals with whether something will react with another substance. The reactivity of an element can be predicted based on its location on the periodic table.

The most reactive nonmetal is fluorine. Fluorine is a halogen, which is Group 17 on the periodic table, and the halogens are the most reactive nonmetals. This is because they all have one empty space in their valence electron shells. Of the halogens, fluorine's empty space is closest to the positively charged nucleus. This means it pulls harder on another atom's electrons to fill that empty space.

Answer 2

Answer: Option (a) is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Elements of group 17 are known as halogens whereas elements of group 18 are known as noble gases.

Noble gases have completely filled valence shell. Therefore, they are stable and does not react easily.

Whereas halogens have incompletely filled sub-shells, therefore, in order to gain stability they react readily with another atom.

Halogen atoms are also electronegative in nature. On moving down the group, the electronegativity decreases. Thus, the atom at the top of group 17, that is, fluorine is the most reactive non-metal because fluorine has high electronegativity so, it readily attracts an electron in order to completely fill its sub-shell.

Thus, we can conclude that at the top of group 17 most reactive nonmetal elements are found on the periodic table.