What is Inorganic Chemistry?

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  • What is Inorganic Chemistry?
  • What are Hydride Compounds?

 

  • Sketch the periodic table and label the areas containing elements that give rise to Ionic, Covalent and Metallic hydrides.

 

  • Identify on the periodic table the area where a hydride gap occurs.

 

  • What is an Isotope?

 

  • Hydrogen gas can be prepared in the Laboratory. Explain the following:
  • Why is the gas collected by the downward displacement of water.
  • Why hydrogen gas is not collected by air?

 

  • Hydrogen has only one proton, but its Ionization energy is much greater than that of Lithium, which has three protons. Explain.

 

  • Helium has an atomic number of 2 and a mass number of 4. This means that a neutral helium atom is made up of? Choose one answer from below:
  1. 4 neutrons, 2 protons and 2 electrons

 

  1. 4 neutrons, 4 protons and 2 electrons

 

  1. 2 neutrons, 4 protons and 2 electrons

 

  1. 2 neutrons, 2 protons and 2 electrons
  • State two Physical Properties of Helium and give three uses of the Helium Gas.

 

  • Why are the elements of Group 1 called alkali metals?

 

 

  • Why alkali metals do not occur as free elements in nature?

 

 

  • Explain why:

 

  1. Alkali metals are good conductors of electricity.

 

  1. Lithium has the highest ionization energy in the group.

 

 

  • Sodium forms +1 ion and not +2 ion.

 

 

  1. Group 1 elements form ionic compounds.
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