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Reactivity of metals (overview)

Problem

Ahmed experiments the reactivity of four metals: A, B, C, and D, by reacting them with water as follows.
Metalwith cold waterwith hot waterwith steam
Ano reactionno reactionno reaction
Bslow reactionrapid reactionvigorous reaction
Cno reactionno reactionslow reaction
Dno reactionslow reactionrapid reaction
Using the information from the table, move the boxes below to arrange these metals from the order of higher to lower reactivity.
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