The high melting and boiling point of metals is due to the attraction between the delocalized electrons and the positive ions in metallic bonding.
What are metals?
Metals are mostly hards and shiny solid elements which forms ions by loss of electrons.
Metals are found in group 1, 2 and 3 of the periodic table of elements.
Transition metals are found in the d- and f-block of the periodic table.
The melting and boiling point of transition metals increases as the number of delocalized electrons increases.
Because the positive ions in metals are strongly attracted to the delocalized electrons in the metal, they are not easily removed from the metal causing the metal to be very hard, malleable and ductile.
Alkali metals are more reactive than transition metals because they have only one valence electron per atom
The boiling points of metals vary greatly.
The melting points are not as extreme as the boiling point. It does not take an extreme amount of energy for atoms to be able to move past each other. However, during boiling, atoms must be separated from a group of which requires a lot of energy.
Light absorbed and released by the electrons in a metal accounts for the luster of the metal.
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