What are the reactants and products of a redox reaction, neutralization reactions, and precipitation reactions?

Precipitation reactions are ones in which at least one of the reactants is in the aqueous phase (i.e., dissolved in water), and a solid forms on the product side which was not present on the reactant side. If all the reactants are solid, then a solid product forming should not be called a precipitate. To be called a precipitate, an insoluble product must form from within solution, either from a solid and solute interacting, or from an interaction strictly between solutes.

Explanation:

alkaline metals are lithium, sodium, rubidium, potassium, cesium and francium.

alkali metals have electronegativity from 0.7 to 1, lowest in periodic table of elements, which means that alkali metals (i group in periodic table) has positive oxidation number in compounds.

electronegativity is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom to attract a shared pair of electrons towards itself.

alkaline metals (far left in main group) have lowest ionizations energy and easy remove valence electrons,

for example, potassium is the alkali metal and has a single valence electron in the outer electron shell.

electron configuration of potassium is: ₁₉k 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶4s¹.

they can not exist alone in nature, because they are very reactive.