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Early Models of the Atom (2.1) Flashcards

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1
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Which law did Antoine Lavoisier introduce?

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Law of Conservation of Mass

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Which law did Joseph Proust introduce?

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Law of Definite Proportions

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Which law did John Dalton introduce?

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Law of Multiple Proportions

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What were the 4 key points of Dalton’s atomic theory?

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  1. Elements are made of atoms
  2. Atoms of a given element are identical; different elements have different atoms
  3. Compounds form when atoms join together; a given compound always has the same numbers and types of atoms
  4. Reactions involve the rearrangement of atoms (but don’t change the atoms themselves)
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Who created the billiard ball model?

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John Dalton

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What is the charge-to-mass ratio of an electron?

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charge on the electron (e) in coulombs (C) / mass in grams = -1.76 x 10⁸ C/g

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Which model did J.J. Thompson create and how does it work?

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Plum pudding model: entire atom is positively charged with negative electrons embedded in it

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What did Ernest Rutherford conclude when he tested Thomson’s model?

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The center of the atom must be positively charged and dense; used the term “protons” for the positively charged particles; most of the atom is empty space

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Which model did Rutherford create and how does it work?

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Nuclear atom model: an atom with a dense positive nucleus containing protons with electrons moving around the nucleus

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Who suggested the existence of neutrons and why?

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Rutherford; found that protons and electrons could only account for about half the mass of any atom

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Who proved the existence of neutrons?

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James Chadwick

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Who first explained the idea of isotopes and what are they?

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James Chadwick; atoms of the same element with different masses

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Describe the nucleus

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Very dense; contains nearly all of the atom’s mass

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In standard atomic notation, what does each letter stand for?

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A - the number of protons + neutrons (mass number)
Z - the number of protons (atomic number)
X - element symbol

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What changes and what stays the same in isotopes?

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The number of electrons and neutrons CAN change; the number of protons NEVER changes for any element

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Describe how protons behave

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Protons are tightly packed inside the nucleus - these particles repel each other

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Describe how neutrons behave

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Neutrons separate the protons reducing repulsion and stabilizing the nucleus

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What force attracts protons and neutrons to each other?

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Strong nuclear force

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What is needed to make an atom stable?

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The right balance of protons and neutrons

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What happens when protons and neutrons are not properly balanced?

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The nucleus becomes unstable and decays into a more stable nucleus

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Define radioisotopes

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Isotopes with unstable nuclei that decay into different (often more stable) isotopes

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Define isotopic abundance

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The percentage of a given isotope in a sample of an element

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What is a mass spectrometer?

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A measuring instrument used to determine the mass and abundance of isotopes

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What do we call the data produced by mass spectrometers?

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Mass spectrum

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25
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Define nuclear radiation

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Energy or small particles emitted as an isotope decays

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What are the 3 common types of nuclear radiation?

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  1. Alpha particles
  2. Beta particles
  3. Gamma radiation
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Define alpha particle

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Same as He-4 atom (2 protons and 2 neutrons) with +2 charge; low energy - can be blocked by paper

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Define beta particle

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A negatively charged electron that can pass through paper but not metals

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Define gamma radiation

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High energy electromagnetic radiation; travels at speed of light and can penetrate most things except for lead

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Define atomic mass unit

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The mass of an element shown in the periodic table (atomic mass units, u); one atomic mass unit is equal to one twelfth the mass of a carbon-12 atom

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How do you calculate average atomic mass?

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Sum the known isotopes for an element multiplied by their percentage abundance

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32
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Define electromagnetic radiation

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One of the many ways energy travels; travels at the speed of light through a vacuum

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Define wavelength

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The distance between peaks or troughs in a wave

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What is frequency?

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The number of waves (cycles) per second that pass a given point per second

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Which wavelength radiation has the highest frequency?

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Short-wavelength radiation

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36
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What’s the speed of light formula?

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(wavelength in m)(frequency in Hz) = C (speed of light)

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What did Max Planck discover about matter?

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Matter could not absorb or emit any quantity of energy

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What did Planck mean by “energy is quantized”?

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It could only be absorbed or emitted in whole number multiples of hv

39
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What do the letters in hv stand for?

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v = frequency
h = Planck's constant 6.626x10^-34 J-s
40
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What is the formula for the change in energy for a system?

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Delta E (Change in energy) = nhv
(n = an integer, h = Planck's constant, v = frequency)
41
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Define continuous spectrum

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The spectrum observed when light is passed through a prism (a rainbow)

42
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Which light contains all wavelenghts?

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White light

43
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Define line spectrum

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The spectrum observed when the emission spectrum of an element is passed through a prism (only a few discrete lines are seen)

44
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What is the quantum model and who created it?

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Niels Bohr proposed that the electron in hydrogen moves around the nucleus on fixed orbits (shells)

45
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What did Bohr conclude about the movement of electrons?

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They could only orbit in fixed paths or shells around the nucleus

46
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What is Coulomb’s Law?

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The force between two charged particles is proportional to the magnitude of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

47
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What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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There is a limit to precisely knowing the position and momentum of a particle

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What did De Broglie reason about the electron?

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The electron, long considered to be a particle, showed wave properties too

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In Schrodinger’s equation, what does the H, w and E stand for?

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H: the operator
W: wave function
E: total energy of atom

50
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The more accurately we know a particle’s position…

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The less accurately we know momentum

51
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What are probability distributions?

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The probability of finding an electron in a given space

52
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Where does one have the greatest probability of finding an electron and why?

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Closest to the nucleus, because the further away the electron is, the more space it can occupy

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What shape are s orbitals? How many electrons can they hold?

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Spherical; can hold a maximum of 2 electrons

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What shape are p orbitals and how many electrons can they hold in total?

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Dumbbells/figure 8s; have 3 lobes (x, y, z) each holding 2 electrons for a total of 6 electrons

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What shape are d orbitals and how many electrons can they hold in total?

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Dumbbells/figure 8s; have 5 lobes each holding 2 electrons for a total of 10 electrons

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What shape are f orbitals and how many electrons can they hold in total?

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Dumbbells/figure 8s; have 7 lobes each holding 2 electrons for a total of 14 electrons

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What is the aufbau principle?

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In the ground state of an atom or ion, electrons fill orbitals of the lowest energy levels before occupying higher levels

58
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Give the first twelve in the filling order of orbitals

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1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 4s, 3d, 4p, 5s, 4d, 5p, 6s

59
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What is the electron correlation problem?

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Since the exact pathways of electrons cannot be calculated, their exact repulsions cannot be calculated either

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What is the shielding effect?

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Inner shell electrons shield outer shell electrons from the pull of the nucleus

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What is the order of the energies of orbitals (lowest to highest)

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s < p < d < f

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What is the Pauli Exclusion Principle?

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Only 2 electrons with opposite spin can occupy an orbital

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What is Hund’s Rule?

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Ensure each orbital has a single electron before doubly filling

64
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How is our modern periodic table arranged?

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According to atomic number

65
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What are three characteristics of metals?

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  1. Conduct heat and electricity
  2. Are malleable
  3. Are ductile
66
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Do metals lose or gain electrons? What ions do they form?

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Metals tend to lose electrons to form positive ions (cations)

67
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Do nonmetals lose or gain electrons? What ions do they form?

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Nonmetals tend to gain electrons forming negative ions (anions)

68
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State the periodic law

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When the elements are arranged by atomic number, their chemical and physical properties recur periodically

69
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What is a period and how does it work?

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A row in the periodic table; as you go across a period, electrons are being added to the same shell until it is full at the noble gases

70
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What is a group and how does it work?

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A column in the periodic table; all elements within the same group have similar properties; electrons in the same group have the same valence electron configuration

71
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What are alkali metals?

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Soft, shiny metals; good conductors of heat and electricity; malleable and ductile; form 1+ cations when reacting with nonmetals; very reactive

72
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What are alkaline earth metals?

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Shiny metals; good conductors of heat and electricity; malleable and ductile; form 2+ cations; reactive, but less than alkali

73
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What are transition metals?

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Groups 3-11; very hard metals with high melting points; can form a variety of compounds with other elements due to their complex electron arrangement; often used as catalysts

74
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What are metalloids?

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The “staircase elements”; have properties of both metals and nonmetals; are shiny, but poor conductors of electricity

75
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What are nonmetals?

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All gases that are not noble gases or halogens; not as reactive as halogens, more reactive than noble gases

76
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What are halogens?

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Very reactive (dangerous) nonmetals; form 1- anions; poisonous; solids, liquids or gases, tend to form salts; not shiny and do not conduct electricity

77
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What are noble gases?

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Extremely non reactive; have a full outer shell

78
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What is condensed electron configuration?

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Place the atomic symbol for the last noble gas in square brackets, then add the valence electrons for the element

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What are isoelectronic elements/ions?

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Elements/ions that have the same electron configuration

80
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What are inner electrons called?

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Core electrons

81
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Give an example of how (n+1)s orbitals fill before the nd orbitals

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4s orbitals fill before 3d orbitals since 4s electrons can get closer to the nucleus providing more stability to the atom

82
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What is true of groups 1-8 of the periodic table, when it comes to electron configurations?

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Elements have the same number of valence electrons as their group number; they also have the same valence electron configurations

83
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What is the atomic radius and what units is it measured in?

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The distance from the centre of an atom to the boundary within which the electrons spend most of their time; measured in picometers

84
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What trend is visible with atomic radius?

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Atomic radius increases down a group and decreases across a period

85
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What is effective nuclear charge? Provide a formula

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The nuclear charge experienced by the outermost electrons of an atom, as a result of the shielding by the inner shell electrons; ENC = # protons - # inner electrons

86
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What is the ionic radius?

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The size of an ion as measured from the center of an ion to its outermost electrons

87
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What is ionization energy?

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The amount of energy (kJ/mol) required to remove the outermost electron from an atom or ion in the gaseous state

88
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What trend is observed with ionization energy?

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Ionization energy increases across a period, and decreases down a group

89
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What is electron affinity?

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The energy change that occurs when an electron is added to a neutral atom

90
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What unit is electron affinity measured in?

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kJ/mol

91
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What trend is found with electron affinity?

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Electron affinity increases across a period and decreases down a group

92
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What is electronegativity?

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The relative ability of an atom to attract shared electrons

93
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What trend is found with electronegativity?

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Electronegativity increases across a period and decreases down a group

Chem U2 Atomic Structure and Properties (4 decks)

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