Silicon, like carbon, is relatively inactive at ordinary temperatures; but when heated it reacts vigorously with the halogens (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine) to form halides and with certain metals to form silicides.
Silicon, like carbon, is relatively inactive at ordinary temperatures; but when heated it reacts vigorously with the halogens (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine) to form halides and with certain metals to form silicides.
beacause all the elements in period 3 has different valence electrons hence you look at the first element in period 3 is sodium which has a valence electron of 1 when you go across the period to the right their valence electron decreases to be negative
