Periodic Table: A table of elements arranged in oder of increasing proton number to show the similarities of the chemical elements with related elctronic configurations
Groups: Vertical columns of the Periodic Table containing elements with similar chemical properties; atons of elemtns in the same group have the smae number of electrons in their outer energy levels.
Period: A horizontal row of the Periodic Table
Metals and non-metals
Metalloids: Such elements have some of the properites of metals and the others that are more characteristic of non-metals.
Main-group elements: The elements present in Group I to VIII of the Periodic Table.
Transition elements: Elements from the central region of the Periodic Table-they are hard, strong, dense mentals, which form compounds that are often coloured
Alkali metals: The Group I
Halogens: The Group VII
Position of hydrogen in the Periodic Table
Hydrogen doesn't belong to any group
Organisation of the Periodic Table
Periodic property: a property of the elements that shows a repeating pattern when plotted against proton number
Elements in the same group have the same number of electrons in their outer shell.
Numbers of Periods of the Periodic show us how many shells of elctrons the atom has.
Noble gases: Elements in Group VIII - a group of stable, very unreactive gases
Relationship betweem group number and ionic charge
↓ metal getting more reactive, densities and melting points increase, atoms getting larger, more metallic
→ atoms getting smaller, less metallic
↑ non-metals getting more reactive
Trends in groups
Group I - the alkali metals
The melting and boiling points become lower
Metals get softer
Densities increase (not exactly)
Chemical reactivity increase
Group VII - the halogens
halides: compounds formed between an element and a halogen
Poisonous and have similar strong smell
Nom-metals
Form diatomic molecules
Have a valency of 1
Compounds with hydrogen are strong acids
Chemical reactivity of the halogens
Halogen displacement reactions: Reactions in which a more reactive halogen displaces a less reactive halogen from a solution of its salt.
Group VIII - the noble gases
The electron electronic configurations are energetically readily with other atoms
Do not react readily with other
Atoms of other elements bound or react chemically are trying to achieve the energetically stable arrangement of electrons.
Trends across a period
Changes across a period
→↑ atomic size decreasing
Transition elements
Hard and strong
High density
High melting and boiling points
many of their compounds are coloured
often act as catalysts
often show more than one valency (variable oxidation number)
Oxidation number: a number given to show whether an element has been oxidised or reduced
often form more than one type of oxide
The oxides of the lower oxidation state are basic ionic oxides
The oxides of the highest oxidation states tend to be covalent and produce acidic solutions in water