The Bob Jones University Accreditation issue is very complicated. The schoolâs founder, Bob Jones, Sr., was very skeptical of collegiate accreditation, believing the accrediting agencies would have too much influence on the academics and overall direction of the school.
A Family Portrait Who's in the family? The members of the alkaline earth metals include: beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba) and radium (Ra). As with all families, these elements share traits. While not as reactive as the alkali metals, this family knows how to make bonds very easily. Each of them has two electrons in their outer shell. They are ready to give up those two electrons in electrovalent/ionic bonds.
They are this way because they only need to lose one electron to gain a stable octet which is very favorable energetically.<br /><br />The most reactive group of non-metals is the halogens, Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine and Astatine.