Put the mixture in water, the pebbles will sink, the pepper will float, and the sugar will dissolve
The temperature of a liquid can exceed its boiling point. An example is water. Although at ordinary pressure of 1 atm, the boiling point is 100 degrees, water can still exist in higher temperatures but this time in another state. Superheated steam is the term used for water whose temperature has higher than the boiling point
Whether or not they are within the same group (vertical columns) within the periodic table, determines similarity of chemical properties.
Here’s what I found:
It takes very little energy to remove that outermost electron from an alkali metal. Thus, alkali metals easily lose their outermost electron to become a +1 ion. ... In fact, as you go down the 1A column, the first ionization energies get lower and lower, making cesium the most easily ionized element on the periodic table.
So basically it’s because part of what makes alkali metals so reactive is that they have one electron in their outermost electron layer.
