alkaline earth metal

See also: alkaline-earth metal

English

alkaline earth metal (plural alkaline earth metals)

(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.

any element of group II of the periodic table

Afrikaans: aardalkalimetaal (af), alkaliaardmetaal (af)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鹼土金屬 (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
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