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The Periodic Table
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Pre-Periodic Table Chemistry … …was a mess!!! No organization of elements. Imagine going to a grocery store with no organization!! Difficult to find information. Chemistry didn’t make sense.
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Dmitri Mendeleev: Father of the Table HOW HIS WORKED… Elements in rows (periods) by increasing atomic weight. Elements in columns (families) by the way they reacted. SOME PROBLEMS… Left blank spaces for what he said were undiscovered elements. (Turned out he was right!) Pattern of increasing atomic weight was broken to keep similar reacting elements together. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Medele eff_by_repin.jpg
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The Current Periodic Table Mendeleev wasn’t too far off. Now the elements are put in rows by increasing ATOMIC NUMBER! The horizontal rows are called periods and are labeled from 1 to 7. The vertical columns are called groups or families and are labeled from 1 to 18.
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Groups…Here’s Where the Periodic Table Gets Useful!! Elements in the same group have similar chemical and physical properties!! (Mendeleev did that on purpose.) They have the same number of valence electrons. They will form the same kinds of ions. Why ?
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Groups/Families on the Periodic Table Columns are called groups or families. Groups may be one column, or several columns put together. Groups have names rather than numbers. (Just like your family has a common last name.)
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Groups are also called families. They are vertical columns.
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Periods Row on the period table Elements in the same period have the same number of electron rings Very different properties as you move across the table Examples: Period 1 ~ H and He 1 electron shell Period 2 ~ Li, Be, B, C, N, O, F, 2 electron shells Etc……..
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Periods are horizontal rows.
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Hydrogen Belongs to a family of its own. Diatomic, reactive gas. Was involved in the explosion of the Hindenberg. Promising as an alternative fuel source for automobiles
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Alkali Metals 1 st column on the periodic table (Group 1) not including hydrogen. Very reactive metals Always combined with something else in nature (like in salt). Soft enough to cut with a butter knife 1 valence electron
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Alkaline Earth Metals Second column on the periodic table. (Group 2) Reactive metals Always combined with nonmetals in nature. Several are important mineral nutrients (Mg and Ca) 2 valence electrons
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Transition Metals Elements in groups 3-12 Less reactive harder metals Includes metals used in jewelry and construction. Metals used “as metal.”
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Boron Family Elements in group 13 Aluminum metal was once rare and expensive, not a “disposable metal.”
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Carbon Family Elements in group 14 Contains elements important to life and computers. Carbon is the basis for an entire branch of chemistry. Silicon and Germanium are important semiconductors.
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Nitrogen Family Elements in group 15 Nitrogen makes up over ¾ of Earth’s atmosphere. Nitrogen and phosphorus are both important in living things. Most of the world’s nitrogen is not available to living things. The red stuff on the tip of matches is phosphorus.
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Oxygen Family Elements in group 16 Oxygen is necessary for respiration. Many things that stink, contain sulfur (rotten eggs, garlic, skunks,etc.)
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Halogens Elements in group 17 Very reactive, volatile, diatomic, nonmetals Always found combined with other element in nature Used as disinfectants and to strengthen teeth
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The Noble Gases
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Elements in group 18 VERY unreactive (STABLE), monatomic gases Used in lighted “neon” signs Used in blimps to fix the Hindenberg problem. Have a full valence shell.
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One of two rows that “sits off” to the bottom of the periodic table Reactive Fairly soft metals Lanthanide Series
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Also towards bottom of periodic table All are radioactive, some are not found in nature Some with higher atomic numbers have only been made in labs Actinide Series
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Periodic Trends Atomic Radius – related to the atom’s volume. − Period – atomic radius decreases as you go from left to right − Group – atomic radius increases as you go down a group
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Periodic Trends Electronegativity – the atoms “desire” to grab another atom’s electrons. − Period – electronegativity increases as you go from left to right − Group – electronegativity decreases as you go down a group
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Periodic Trends Ionization Energy – amount of energy needed to remove the outermost electron. Closely related to electronegativity. − Period – Ionization energy increases as you go from left to right − Group – Ionization energy decreases as you go down a group
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Periodic Trends Reactivity – how likely or how vigorously an atom is to react with another substance. Non-Metals − Period - reactivity increases as you go from left to right − Group – reactivity decreases as you go down the group Metals − Period – reactivity decreases as you go from left to right − Group – reactivity increases as you go down a group
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Periodic Trends Melting Point Metals – the melting point for metals decreases as you go down a group Non-Metals – the melting point for non-metals increases as you go down a group
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