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This document contains an assignment for a CHEM145 course. It includes questions about electronegativity and how it relates to the formation of ions between metals and nonmetals. It also defines ionic bonds and asks students to provide examples of important ionic compounds. Additional questions define terms like electronegativity, electron affinity, and ionization energy and how they are related. It also asks students to describe the periodic trends of these terms and to name ionic compounds using the stock system method.

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Assignment 4: Subject CHEM145

This document contains an assignment for a CHEM145 course. It includes questions about electronegativity and how it relates to the formation of ions between metals and nonmetals. It also defines ionic bonds and asks students to provide examples of important ionic compounds. Additional questions define terms like electronegativity, electron affinity, and ionization energy and how they are related. It also asks students to describe the periodic trends of these terms and to name ionic compounds using the stock system method.

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Assignment 4

Subject CHEM145

Electronegativity is the measure of an atom's ability to attract electrons.


 Describe how and why metals and non metals tend to form ions, referencing electronegativity.
Give an example of a metal and a nonmetal that you use in your everyday life.
 What would happen if the periodic and group trends for electronegativity were reversed?
Metals have a low electronegativity and nonmetals have a high electronegativity. With this being true,
metal atoms are willing to lose electrons and nonmetal atoms are willing to gain the electrons loft from
the metal atoms. This causes the metal and nonmetal atoms to bond together and form ions. A metal
that I use in everyday life is aluminum when I use utensils to eat food. A nonmetal that I use on a day to
day basis is oxygen to breathe.

Bonds can be classified as ionic or covalent.


 Define an ionic bond and describe an ionic compound that is important in your everyday life.
An ionic bond that is important in everyday life is NaCl or table salt. NaCl is important in everyday life
because it can be used medically to clean wounds or used in culinary to flavor food, among various other
uses. An ionic compound that is important in everyday life is Na2SO3, sodium sulfite. This is important in
everyday life because it is used to preserve food products chemically.

Given the following electron configuration: 1s 22s22p63s23p64s1


 Identify the element and distinguish between valence and non-valence electrons, given
this electron configuration.
 What would happen if exponent in the 3p 6 were to change? Explain.

This element can be identified as potassium. You can tell this element is potassium from the electron
configuration because it has 19 valence electrons. Non valence electrons are core electrons that do not
participate in chemical bonding. Valance electrons are electrons in the outermost shell of an atom that
bond with other valence electrons to form electron pairs.

If the exponent on the 3p6 were to change it would become a different element. It would become a
different element because the number of valence electrons would change. The number of valence
electrons depends on the number of the element.

Electronegativity, electron affinity and ionization energy are characteristics used when describing
chemical bonding.
 Define each of these terms and describe how they are related.
 Describe the periodic and group trends of each
Electronegativity is the ability of an atom to attract electrons. Electron affinity is the energy released on
adding an electron to a single atom on the gaseous state. Ionization energy is the energy required to
remove one electron from a single atom in the gaseous state. Ionization energy is the opposite of
electronegativity. Electron affinity is the result of when atoms are electronegatively bonded together.
Electron affinity gives the amount of energy released when an atom gains an electron and ionization
energy is the amount of energy required to remove an electron from an atom.

On the periodic table, electronegativity increases as you move left to right across a period and decreases
as you move down a group. As you go across a period in the in the periodic table electron affinity
increases, but electron affinity will go down as you go down a group. As you move left to right on the
periodic table ionization energy increases.
Ionic compounds are composed of a cation and an anion. These compounds can be named the
traditional way or using the “stock system method”.
 Describe how the “stock system method” is used to name ionic compounds.
 Give an example of an ionic compound using the stock system naming method and describe its
practical uses.
The stock system method allows the specification of transition metal ionic charge when naming ionic
compounds. An ionic compound is first named by its cation and then its anion. The cation has the same
name as its element. For example, fluorine would be F. Then the anion is named by taking the elemental
name , removing the ending, and adding -ide. So for fluorine the -ine would be removed and -ide would
be added. An ionic compound using the stock naming system would be NaF, sodium fluoride. This
compound can be found in drinking water and toothpaste.

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