Modern inorganic chemistry

Modern inorganic chemistry AN INTERMEDIATE TEXT C. CHAMBERS, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.R.I.C. Senior Chemistry Master, Bolton School A. K. ...

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Contents - 1 The periodic table 2 Structure and bonding 3 Energetics 4 Acids and bases: oxidation and reduction 5 Hydrogen ...

Preface The welcome changes in GCE Advanced level syllabuses during the last few years have prompted the writing of this new Ino ...

PREFACE tion Syndicate (C). We also thank the University of Liverpool for permission to use questions from various first-year ex ...

1 The periodic table DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS METALS AND NON-METALS We now know of the existence of over one hundred elements. A cen ...

2 THE PERIODICTABLE successive eighth element was^4 a kind of repetition of the first'. A few years later, Lothar Meyer and Mend ...

THE PERIODIC TABLE 3 IA, IB as shown. The element at the top of each group was called the "head' element. Group VIII contained n ...

4 THE PERIODIC TABLE It increased by one unit from one element to the next, for example magnesium 12, aluminium 13. This is clea ...

THE PERIODIC TABLE 5 discoverer. Several series of lines are observed, all of which fit the formula where R is a constant (the R ...

6 THE PERIODIC TABLE the excited hydrogen was placed in a magnetic field. An attempt was made to explain these lines using a mod ...

THE PERIODIC TABLE 7 THE MODERN PERIODIC TABLE The close similarity of the atomic spectra of other atoms to that of hydrogen ind ...

8 THE PERIODICTABLE For the next elements, sodium to argon, the n = 3 quantum level fills up in the same way as the n = 2 quantu ...

THE PERIODIC TABLE 9 Table 1. ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION OF THE ELEMENTS POTASSIUM TO KRYPTON Atomic Element Is 2s 3s 3p 5d 4s 4p ...

Table 1. ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATIONS OF THE ELEMENTS CAESIUM TO LAWRENCIUM llWIII Cs Ba La Cc Pr Nd Pm Sm h Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb L ...

9 I S I I I I I I I I H H 9 I 9 I 9 Z 9 I 9 Z 9 Z 9 Z 9 I 9 I 9 Z 9 Z 9 I 9 Z 01 n H 01 H W 0! H H 01 H H 01 H H 01 H H 0! 9 I H ...

12 THE PERIODICTABLE FEATURES OF THE PERIODIC TABLE Chemical physical and spectroscopic data all suggest a periodic table as sh ...

THE PERIODiCTABLE 13 Group IIB and know that this means the group of elements zinc, cadmium and mercury, whilst Group I1A refers ...

14 THE PERIODICTABLE not fit into the Mendel eef table and can only be fitted into the modern table by expanding it sideways to ...

THE PERIODICTABLE 15 IMPORTANT PROPERTIES WHICH SHOW A PERIODIC FUNCTION IONISATION ENERGY Reference has already been made to Lo ...