Friday, March 4, 2016

Periodic Trends

Ionization energy- qualitatively defined as the amount of energy required to remove the most loosely bound electron of an isolated gaseous atom to form a cation

Electron affinity- neutral atom's likelihood of gaining an electron

Atomic radius- total distance from an atom’s nucleus to the outermost orbital of electron

Periodic trends all follow a set pattern with a few exceptions. Electron affinity and ionization energy both go up and to the right, while atomic radius goes down and to the left.

Resources:
Electron Affinity
Electron Affinity Khan Academy
Ionization Energy
Atomic Radius

1 comment:

  1. If anything, it's going to be memorizing these trends that's going to mess me up on the unit test. Thank you for the practice links!

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