• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Class Notes

Free Education for All

  • Class 1-5
  • Class 6
  • Class 7
  • Class 8
  • Class 9
  • Class 10
  • Class 11
  • Class 12
  • NCERT Solutions
    • NCERT Books
Home » Class 11 » Chemistry » s-Block Elements » Uses of Alkaline Earth Metals

Uses of Alkaline Earth Metals

Last Updated on May 3, 2020 By Mrs Shilpi Nagpal 4 Comments

Beryllium

1) It is used in the manufacture of alloys. Copper-beryllium alloys are used in the preparation of high strength springs.

2) Metallic beryllium is used for making Windows of X- ray tubes.

Magnesium

1) It is used to prepare alloy with aluminium , zinc , manganese and tin.

2) Magnesium – aluminium alloy being light in mass are used in construction of aircrafts.

3) Magnesium (powder or ribbon)  is used in flash powders and bulbs, incendiary bombs and signals.

4) A suspension of magnesium hydroxide in water (called milk of magnesia) is used as antacid in medicine.

5) Magnesium hydroxide and magnesium carbonate are used in making toothpaste.

6) Magnesium also used for ignition of thermite charge in aluminothermy and for preparing Grignard’s reagent which are widely used in organic synthesis.

Calcium

Calcium is used in the extraction of metals from their oxides which are difficult to reduce with carbon.

Calcium and barium metals due to their reactivity towards oxygen and nitrogen at elevated temperature have often being used to remove last traces of air from vacuum tubes.

Radium salts are used in radiotherapy.

Filed Under: Chemistry, Class 11, s-Block Elements Tagged With: milk of magnesia, use of radium, uses of beryllium, uses of calcium, uses of magnesium

About Mrs Shilpi Nagpal

Author of this website, Mrs Shilpi Nagpal is MSc (Hons, Chemistry) and BSc (Hons, Chemistry) from Delhi University, B.Ed (I. P. University) and has many years of experience in teaching. She has started this educational website with the mindset of spreading Free Education to everyone.

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Gloria says

    October 10, 2019 at 1:21 pm

    Wow! This information is very interesting! 🙂

    Reply
  2. Dr.Rajkumat says

    August 9, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    Interesting facts

    Reply
  3. Josh P. says

    October 10, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    Super neat

    Reply
  4. Ayomide says

    October 14, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    Interesting fact

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Werner’s Coordination Theory
  • Coordination Compounds
  • Vowels and Consonants
  • Economics Chapter 5 Consumer Rights – Notes & Study Material
  • Prefix and Suffix
  • Economics Chapter 4 Globalisation and The Indian Economy – Notes & Study Material
  • Diphthongs
  • Economics Chapter 3 Money and Credit – Notes & Study Material
  • Compounds of Xenon and uses of Noble Gases
Copyright © 2016-2021 | About Us | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter