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(b) Potassium and sodium are kept in dark reagent bottles filled with paraffin oil. Explain why.​
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(b) Potassium and sodium are kept in dark reagent bottles filled with paraffin oil.

Explain why.​

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these metals are stored in kerosene because kerosene contains no water and protects these metals from being exposed to any moisture in the air that would cause these metals to react, potentially violently.

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