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| | alkaline earth metal -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
 | | The family of chemical elements called the alkaline earth metals consists of beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, and radium. |
 | | The alkali metals and alkaline earth metals form three different types of binary oxygen compounds: (1) oxides, containing oxide ions, O2, (2) peroxides, containing peroxide ions, O22, which contain oxygen-oxygen covalent single bonds, and (3) superoxides, containing superoxide ions, O2, which also have oxygen-oxygen covalent bonds but with one less negative charge than... |
 | | The designation of earth for these elements comes from the Middle Ages when alchemists referred to many substances that were insoluble in water and unchanged by... |
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