Am Sonntag, den 01.04.2007, 17:17 +0100 schrieb Andrew Walkingshaw: > On 4/1/07, Geoffrey Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Apr 1, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Jean Bréfort wrote: > > > > > H is not an alkali (whatever you call it, earth or metal) The family > > > starts with Li, and H is a non metal. The correct name for Li > > > through Fr > > > is Alkali metals. > > > > Exactly. > > Group 2 are the alkali earth metals, though.
IMO (and AFAIK) "Alkaline Earth Metals". I did a search with google to see, how the terms are used. I found only a few references for the term "alkali earths" (< 1000). Checking "alkali earth", I found references to the term "alkali earth metals" (around 200000). Most of these references use the term synonymously to "alkaline earth metals", a few use it for the alkali metals. Checking "alkaline earth metals" brought up the most references (> 1000000). So I suggest to use "alkaline earth metals". But I didn't find real references, that the first group is called "alkali earth" or "alkali earth metals". Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Blue-obelisk mailing list Blue-obelisk@hardly.cubic.uni-koeln.de http://hardly.cubic.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/blue-obelisk
