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Sodium is a metal, like copper, suggest reasons why sodium cannot be used in electrical wires

Sodium is a metal, like copper, suggest reasons why sodium cannot be used in electrical wires
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Sodium is a metal, like copper, suggest reasons why sodium cannot be used in electrical wires

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it is highly reactive. this is because it is in the first chemical family it only has one valence electron making it very unstable

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