Which statement best describes a way in which society affects the development of technology? A. New vaccines can eliminate many diseases that are deadly to humans.
B. As the price of electric cars decreases, more people are able to afford them.
C. People can live longer, healthier lives through advancements in medicine.
D. Concerns about air pollution have caused car companies to develop more electric cars.

C. People can live longer, healthier lives through advancements in medicine.

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.