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Atoms like sodium and lithium often lose electrons, which makes them
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Atoms like sodium and lithium often lose electrons, which makes them

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more reactive than others
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Good reducing agents

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Atoms that have a trend to lose electrons are less electronegative than others and also this makes them good reducing agents. This means that they can reduce other species by oxidating themselves

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