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Can metals take away electrons from non metals?

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Metals tend to lose electrons and non-metals tend to gain electrons, so in reactions involving these two groups, there is electron transfer from the metal to the non-metal

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Well no because if metals lose electrons, any non-metal sources/items gain electrons from the metal.

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