One day in lab, while washing some glassware, your friend Keisha (an expert chemist) says this:
"Group 1A metal hydrides react with water to produce hydroxides and hydrogen gas."
Using Keisha's statement, and what you already know about chemistry, predict the products of the following reaction.
Be sure your chemical equation is balanced!
RbH(s)+H2O(l)
The statement by Keisha suggests that the reaction between the Group 1A metal hydride and water will produce hydroxide and hydrogen gas.
The metal hydride in this case is RbH, which stands for Rubidium hydride.
The balanced equation for the reaction can be written as:
RbH(s) + H2O(l) → RbOH(aq) + H2(g)