Periodic Table
Vertical columns on the periodic table are called
What groups?
Horizontal rows on the periodic table are called
What are periods?
How many electrons can the s-block hold?
What is 2 electrons?
The highest point on the wave
What is the crest?
The electrons located on the outer shell and can participate in formation of chemical bonds
What is valence electrons?
The three main groups found in the periodic table
What is metals, nonmetals, and metalloids?
The group on the periodic table with two valence electrons
What are alkaline earth metals?
How many electrons can the p-block hold?
6
As wavelength decreases, frequency
What is increases?
An element's affinity (attraction) of electrons
What is electronegativity?
The most reactive metals are known as
What is alkali metals?
The group on the periodic table has a full octet
What is noble gases?
According to the Pauli Exclusion Principle
Each electron in a sublevel, will have opposite spins (one up arrow and one down arrow)
Lowest part on a wave
What is the trough?
What is ionization energy?
The most reactive group of nonmetals
What is the halogen group?
Electronegativity ______ from left to right.
What is increases?
The number of electrons can be found by
What is adding all of the exponents (or arrows) in the electron configuration (or orbital diagram)?
As wavelength increases, energy _______
What is decreases?
The amount of time-required for a substance to decay to 1/2 of the original amount
What is half-life?
The least reactive group on the periodic table
What are the noble gases?
Each period on the periodic table has _______ in common.
What is the same number of energy levels?
The highest energy level found in the electron configuration of nitrogen
What is 2?
Light has dual nature meaning
What is it behaves like a wave and like a particle?
When two or more atomic nuclei join together to form a single heavier nucleus and large amounts of energy
What is nuclear fusion?