Category 1
Ionic bonds involve the joining of...
What type of charge do cations have and what elements form cations?
What is positive and metals?
What type of charge do anions have and what elements typically form them?
What is negative and nonmetals?
Describe a binary ionic compound.
answers will vary
Are ionic bonds relatively strong or relatively weak?
What is relatively strong?
What appears first in an ionic compound?
What is the metal?
What happens to the electrons involved in ionic bonding?
What is they are transferred?
What donates electrons?
What is cations or metals?
What accepts electrons?
What is anions or nonmetals?
How are polyatomic ions treated during ionic bonding?
What is as an individual element?
What is the lewis dot structure for calcium and what does it tell you calcium will do with it's electrons?
What is it loses them
What might you expect the oxidation number of a transition metal to be?
What is 2+ or 3+?
Lattice energy increases as the size of the compound...
What is decreases?
What is the lewis dot structure for nitrogen and what does it tell you sulfur will do with it's electrons?
What is it will accept more?
What is the oxidation number for phosphorus?
What is 3-?
What is the oxidation number for calcium in Ca3N2?
What is 2+?
What does oxidation number tell you?
What is the number of electrons transferred?
What do the subscripts and superscripts in an ionic compound represent?
Subscript is number of atoms, superscript is charge/oxidation number
Describe crystal lattice structure.
What is answers will vary?
How can you make an ionic bond conduct electricity?
What is by dissolving it or melting it?
How would you name a compound containing cesium and oxygen?
What is cesium oxide?
If magnesium and chlorine bonded to form magnesium chloride, how many of each element would be required?
What is 1 magnesium and 2 chlorine?
What would be the correct formula for francium sulfide?
What is Fr2S?
What would be the correct formula for aluminum phosphide?
What is AlP?
Why are ionic bonds exothermic?
answers will vary