alkaline earth metal

See also: alkaline-earth metal

English

Alternative forms

• alkaline-earth metal

Noun

alkaline earth metal (plural alkaline earth metals)

1. (inorganic chemistry) Any of the elements of group II of the periodic table; they are low-density metals that react readily with water to form strongly basic hydroxides, and with many acids to form salts.

Related terms

• alkali metal

Translations

any element of group II of the periodic table

• Afrikaans: aardalkalimetaal (af), alkaliaardmetaal (af)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鹼土金屬 / 碱土金属 (gaan² tou² gam¹ suk⁶)

  Mandarin: 鹼土金屬 / 碱土金属 (zh) (jiǎntǔ jīnshǔ)

• Danish: jordalkalimetal n
• Esperanto: teralkala metalo
• Finnish: maa-alkalimetalli (fi)
• French: métal alcalino-terreux (fr) m
• Galician: metal alcalino terroso m
• Georgian: ტუტემიწა ლითონი (ṭuṭemic̣a litoni)
• German: Erdalkalimetall (de) n
• Hungarian: alkáliföldfém
• Irish: miotal cré-alcaileach m
• Japanese: アルカリ土類金属 (ja) (arukari dorui kinzoku)
• Korean: 알칼리 토금속 (alkalli togeumsok)
• Malay: logam alkali bumi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jordalkalimetall n

  Nynorsk: jordalkalimetall n

• Polish: berylowiec m, wapniowiec m, metal ziem alkalicznych m
• Portuguese: metal alcalino-terroso m
• Romanian: metal alcalino-pământos (ro) n
• Russian: щёлочно-земе́льный мета́лл m (ščóločno-zemélʹnyj metáll)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: земноалкалијски мѐта̄л m

  Roman: zemnoalkalijski mètāl m

• Spanish: metal alcalinotérreo
• Swedish: alkalisk jordartsmetall c
• Vietnamese: kim loại kiềm thổ

See also

• beryllium
• magnesium
• calcium
• strontium
• barium
• radium
• alkali metal