The evidence that Mendeleev used to decide that the alkali metals should
be in the same group was because they exhibited the same properties.
Alkali metals are found in Group I together with Hydrogen and examples
include potassium, lithium etc and are the most electropositive sets of
elements.
All require the loss of one electron to attain an octet configuration which
makes them to be very reactive with other elements.
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