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It means metals that are highly reactive. It's one of the most self-evident pieces of terminology in all of chemistry.

Perhaps you were trying to ask which metals are considered "highly reactive", which is a separate question, and one that to some extent depends on your definitions, but would certainly at minimum include all the alkali metals, maybe the alkaline earth metals, and possibly a few selected others (aluminium, for example... we don't usually think of aluminium as "highly reactive" because it immediately forms a thin transparent protective layer of aluminium oxide when exposed to air, but without that layer, it is indeed pretty reactive).

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6mo ago

Highly reactive refers to a substance that readily undergoes chemical reactions with other substances due to its unstable nature or an excess of energy. This can lead to rapid and sometimes violent reactions, making the substance potentially dangerous if not handled properly.

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13y ago

It means-

1. Tending to be responsive or to react to a stimulus.

2. Characterized by reaction.

3. Chemistry & Physics Tending to participate readily in reactions.

re·active·ly adv.

re·active·ness, reac·tivi·ty n.

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12y ago

*Reactivity* is a somewhat vague concept used in chemistry which appears to embody both thermodynamic factors and kinetic factors i.e. 'whether or not a substance reacts and how fast it reacts'

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13y ago

is the ability of two or more substances to combine and form one or more new substances

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14y ago

Reactivity means ready susceptibility to chemical change.

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6y ago

Reactivity is the ability of a substance to react with another substance.

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