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4.2 Tour of the Periodic Table
Locate the different families of main group elements on the periodic table, describe thire properties and relate thier prperties to thier electron configurations and relate to elec. configs.
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Chemistry
10th Grade
01/06/2012

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What are the main group elements?
Group numbers?
Type of block?
Definition
hydrogen(1;s), alkali metals(1;s), alkaline-earth metals(2;s), post transition metals(13-16;p), other nonmetals(13-16;p), halogens(17;p), noble gases (18;p)
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Properties of Alkali Metals?
Definition
  • reacts w/water
  • one valence electron
  • very reactive
  • always in a compound
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Property of Alkaline-Earth Metals?
Definition
slightly less reactive than alkalai metals
Term
Property of Halogens?
Definition
most reactive nonmetals
Term
Properties of Noble Gases?
Definition
  1. All inert except Xenon
  2. Are stable 
  3. Full valence shell (8 e)
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Properties of Hydrogen?
Definition
  1. Has no neutrons
  2. Makes up 75% of all elements
  3. Reactive w/a lot of things

 

Term
Properties of Metals?
Definition
  • shiny, lusterious
  • conducts electricity
  • ductile
  • malleable
Term
ductile
Definition
can be squeezed into strings
Term
malleable
Definition
can be pressed into sheets
Term
Properties of Transition Metals?
Definition
  1. Loses a neutron or two [ex. Hg2 (II) or Cu (I)]
  2. Are ductile/malleable
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Properties of Lathindes and Actinides?
Definition
  1. Located in the f-block
  2. Are radioactive
Term
alloys
Definition

solid or liquid mixture of two or more metals

 

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