Wednesday, May 11, 2011

7.3

The Heaviest elements have the smallest radii because as protons increase it brings the shells tighter.

Electronegativity decreases as you move down a group because there are more shells and the electrons are further away from the nucleus so it weakens the attraction.

It's easier to strip an electron from a non metal than from a metal because non metals like to gain electrons and metals like to lose electrons so it make sense that it would be harder to strip an electron from a non metal than a metal.

I think these trends are referred to as periodic because they are ongoing

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