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Is it true in hockey the sticks are made out of wood beacuse metal would be more exspenive?

the hockey pucks and the metal

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No, they aren't. Some metals are more reactive than some non-metals and some are less reactive. You can't say all the metals are more or less reactive than all the non-metals. The most reactive metal is Fr (francium) and the most reactive non-metal is F (fluorine). Elements become more reactive at the extremes of the periodic table. The elements in the lower-left corner are the most reactive metals and the elements in the upper-right corner (beside noble gases, they generally don't react at all) are the most reactive non-metals. There is a Pauling scale which measures the electronegativity of elements. In this scale, fluorine has a number of 4.0, oxygen 3.5 and francium -1.0. Hope that helps! Louise
There is something called the Reactivity Series which basically shows which elements are more reactive than others.. but they are grouped as metals and nonmetals.. i dont think you can generalize all nonmetals as more reactive than nonmetals, or vice versa.. it really depends upon the individual element, regardless of whether or not it is a metal.

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