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It is true that the effects of solvation in water are much stronger; but it is also true that the great reactivity of sodium and all alkali metals with protons are because of the great energy of the...
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From the electronic point of view, just losing an electron would bring to sodium a noble gas structure. This justifies the fact commented by unknown008: the reaction is very exothermic.
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I disagree, metallic bonding is not covalent-like, so I find that the usefulness of Lewis structures (really awesome when applied to molecules) is totally poor at describing the metallic behavior....
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