Are electrons transferred from metals to nonmetals or nonmetals to metals? Why does this occur? How is this related to an atoms electronegativity?
The alkaline earth metals beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, and radium, react strongly with water but not quite so strongly as the alkali metal to its immediate left in the periodic table. Although compounds of these metals might appear in a battery, the battery plates themselves wouldn't normally be made of anything like the pure metals. Even mag wheels are really a magnesium-aluminum alloy. Beryllium isn't as reactive as the other alkaline earths but it is poisonous.
