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Valence & Core Electrons
Ions
Ionic Compounds
Polyatomic Ions
Electron Configuration
100
The outermost electron shell that is responsible for forming chemical compounds.
What is the valence shell?
100
An atom with a charge.
What is an ion?
100
What metal cations and non-metal anions form.
What are ionic compounds?
100
An ion consisting of two or more elements.
What is a polyatomic ion?
100
The way chemists describe the positions of electrons in atoms.
What is electron configuration?
200
An electron that is inside of the outermost shell.
What is a core electron?
200
The terms for positive and negative ions, respectively.
What are cation and anion?
200
The balancing of charges in ionic compounds to produce a chemically stable compound.
What is the rule of zero charge.
200
An ion with only one element.
What is a monatomic ion?
200
The shorthand chemists use to make it easier to describe electron positions.
What is writing the nearest noble gas in brackets?
300
What the period tells you about an atoms electrons.
What is the number of shells?
300
The reason noble gases are so chemically stable.
What is having a full valence shell (8 electrons...or 2 for He)?
300
Metals ___________ electrons to form ionic compounds.
What is "give up"?
300
A compound consisting of only two elements.
What is a binary compound?
300
The division(s) of main electron shells.
What are subshells?
400
What the group tells you about an atom's electrons.
What is the number of valence electrons?
400
The ionic charge of elements in Group 1A.
What is +1?
400
The ionic compound formed by sodium and chlorine.
What is NaCl?
400
Polyatomic ions are almost all this type of ion.
What are cations?
400
The number and names of divisions in the 4th electron shell.
What is 4 (s,p,d,f)?
500
The reason light is emitted when you burn an ionic compound.
What is the movement of valence electrons away from the nucleus?
500
The group that can have ions with a + OR - charge.
What is Group 4A?
500
The ionic compound formed by aluminum and oxygen.
What is Al2O3?
500
CO3 and NO3.
What are carbonate and nitrate?
500
The number of electrons that can fit in each shell division.
What is 2, 6, 10, & 14?