Review
Formation of Coloured Compounds
Magnetism
Transitional Metals as Catalysts
Past Paper Questions
100

Transitional Metals are found between the _______ and ________ elements.

What is the s-block and the p-block?

100

Transition metal compounds are coloured due to _________________________.

What is incompletely filled d-sub levels in their ions.?

100

Materials may be classified by their response to externally applied magnetic fields

What is diamagnetic, paramagnetic or non magnetic?

100

A substance that alters (usually accelerates) the rate of a chemical reaction

What is a catalyst?

100

Colors

What is pink?

200

Transitional Metals are ____, thus their name.

What is Unstable?

200

After bonding with coordinating ligands this happens to the d sub-levels

What is split into two groups having different energies?

200

These are all factors responsible for the presence of magnetic fields in an atom.

What is the charge of the electrons, the spin angular momentum of the electrons and the orbital angular momentum of the electrons?

200

Many transition metals and their compounds show catalytic properties because of their________

What is ability to change oxidation state and to adsorb other substances on to their surface?

200

Colours

What is pale pink?

300

An ion with a central metal ion bonded to anions or a neutral group.

What is a complex ion?

300

The process by which energy absorbed is used to promote electrons from the lower energy state to the higher energy state once a vacancy exist in the higher energy state.

What is d-d transition?

300

Many transitional metal complexes are ________ because they contain ______ d electron.

What is paramagnetic and what is unpaired?

300

_____ is used in the _____ process of combining  atmospheric Nitrogen (N) and Hydrogen (H) to form Amonia gas.

What is iron and what is Haber?

300

Colours

What is blue?

400

The electron rich groups that make up a transitional metal complex ion.

What are ligands?

400

The observed colour of the complex is the_____________ of the one absorbed.

What is complimentary colour?

400

A high spin complex and a low spin complex.

What is small AE causing electrons to occupy both high and low energy orbitals to avoid inter-electron repulsion and what is large AE causing the electrons occupy only the lower orbitals since it is more energetically worthwhile?

400

________ is used in the contact process.

What is vanadium (V) oxide?

400

Multiple Choice

What is (C)?

500

Derived from the latin word dentis meaning tooth.

What is Denticity?

500

The colour absorbed by a complex that is blue.

What is orange?

500

These transition metals exhibit ______.

What is ferromagnetims and what are iron, nickel and cobalt?

500

The enzyme in human involved in the metabolism of food that requires copper.

What is cytochrome oxidase?

500

Multiple Choice

What is (D)?