Co is a primary pollutant.
a. true
b. false?

CO which is carbon monoxide is a primary pollutant for air pollution. As it contributes to the major proportion in the air pollutants amongst others. It has 48% percent of pollutants in comparison to other pollutants of air. The source of carbon monoxide is mainly from incomplete combustion of fuel  mostly from the older cars.

The rise in atmospheric CO results in fatigue, drowsiness and my also sometimes lead to death of the person exposed to it.

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.