APA citation style: Historic American Buildings Survey, C. & Benison, G. (1933) Oakland Plantation, Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, SC. Documentation Compiled After. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sc0292/.
There are 18 groups (columns) in the periodic table. Group 1 (also known as the alkali metals) is the column on the far left of the table. Elements in the same group have similar, but not identical characteristics. This is because they all have the same number of electrons in their outermost shell.
Introduction to the Group 1 Alkali Metals (see also data table below). The Alkali Metals form Group 1 of The Periodic Table, and called so because they form oxides and hydroxides that dissolve in water to give alkaline solutions.Alkali metals form the first element of a period, with one outer electron, in any period from period 2 onwards.he alkali metals are so named because they readily react with water to form an alkaline solution of the hydroxide e.g. sodium produced the well known alkali sodium hydroxide. Note: Using 0 to denote the Group number of Noble Gases is very historic now, since, compounds of xenon are known exhibiting a valency of 8.