1.ok why is aluminum on the right side of the periodic table if its a metal?
2. since it's negatively charge can you can you bond it with a positively charge atom for a icon effect even though there both metals? also is that the case with hydrogen with nonmetals?
3. what makes a polar covalent and non polar covalent?
2. since it's negatively charge can you can you bond it with a positively charge atom for a icon effect even though there both metals? also is that the case with hydrogen with nonmetals?
3. what makes a polar covalent and non polar covalent?
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I'm sorry I couldn't explain this in simpler terms, but understanding bonds and ions is difficult without a fundamental understanding of electron configurations and characteristics of elements.
I'm sure your chemistry teacher will cover this soon if they haven't already, but the periodic table is grouped by the electron configurations of the elements. This "right side" of the periodic table is not exclusive to elements which tend to be negatively charged in ionic compounds. In fact, Aluminum is actually a 3+ ion in ionic compounds, and many other elements such as Sn (tin) and Pb (lead) are also positively charged in ionic compounds, but are on the right side. The right side is the farthest 6 columns to the right, and incorporates all the elements which have their highest energy electron orbiting in the "p" orbital. This "p" orbital can hold a maximum of six electrons per energy level, and occurs in energy levels 2 through 7 (it would continue onto energy levels 8, 9, 10, etc., but no elements have been discovered with these electron energy levels in a normal state), which is why this 6 column group starts on the 2nd row down to the 7th row in the periodic table, as the rows of the periodic table represent the energy levels.
No metal becomes a negatively charged ion under any realistic conditions, so ionic bonds are almost always between a metal and a non metal, with a few exceptions :). For example, Sulfuric acid is two H+ ions bonded to one SO4 2- ion, giving the formula H2SO4.
A bond between two nonmetals is what's called a covalent bond, or a bond where electrons are being shared. H2O, CH4, CO2, SO2, etc etc etc are all covalent compounds, since there are no metals involved. This idea of electron sharing ties into your question of polar and non polar covalent bonds :).
I'm sure your chemistry teacher will cover this soon if they haven't already, but the periodic table is grouped by the electron configurations of the elements. This "right side" of the periodic table is not exclusive to elements which tend to be negatively charged in ionic compounds. In fact, Aluminum is actually a 3+ ion in ionic compounds, and many other elements such as Sn (tin) and Pb (lead) are also positively charged in ionic compounds, but are on the right side. The right side is the farthest 6 columns to the right, and incorporates all the elements which have their highest energy electron orbiting in the "p" orbital. This "p" orbital can hold a maximum of six electrons per energy level, and occurs in energy levels 2 through 7 (it would continue onto energy levels 8, 9, 10, etc., but no elements have been discovered with these electron energy levels in a normal state), which is why this 6 column group starts on the 2nd row down to the 7th row in the periodic table, as the rows of the periodic table represent the energy levels.
No metal becomes a negatively charged ion under any realistic conditions, so ionic bonds are almost always between a metal and a non metal, with a few exceptions :). For example, Sulfuric acid is two H+ ions bonded to one SO4 2- ion, giving the formula H2SO4.
A bond between two nonmetals is what's called a covalent bond, or a bond where electrons are being shared. H2O, CH4, CO2, SO2, etc etc etc are all covalent compounds, since there are no metals involved. This idea of electron sharing ties into your question of polar and non polar covalent bonds :).
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