6 VALENCE ELECTRONS PERIODIC TABLE FULL

To form ionic compounds? So you might guess, if You expect things on the left and things on the right

Magnesium as having a positive two charge. So, you'll typically see beryllium having a positive two charge.

6 VALENCE ELECTRONS PERIODIC TABLE FULL

Now, what about these group two elements, also known as the alkaline earth metals? Well, once again, it's easierįor them to lose two electrons than for them to gain sixĪnd have a full outer shell. And that's, in general, true of all of these group one elements. So you'll oftentimes see a lithium ion with a positive one charge, a sodium ion with a positive one charge, a potassium ion withĪ positive one charge. So you're very likely to see them having given away an electron and having a positive one charge. Because as you can imagine,įor them to get stable, they wanna give away an electron. But when we think about ionic compounds, these alkali metals are really some of the most interesting participants. So hydrogen could lose one, and essentially have no electrons, or it could gain one electron and it would have a full The reason why hydrogen'sĪ bit of an exception is it doesn't have to gain seven electrons to have a full outer Them to lose an electron to have a full outer shell than for them to gain seven electrons. And especially the ones that you look, and you see in red here, which are known as the alkali metals, it's much easier for Now, if you go to the otherĮxtreme of the periodic table, if you look at group one elements, they have one valence electron. It has gained two electrons, it's swiped it from somebody else.

To have a full outer shell by gaining two electrons Left, the oxygen group, oxygen, sulfur, and on and on, these elements have six valence electrons. You'll often see iodine gain an electron and have a negative one charge. With a negative one charge as the chloride anion. So you'll oftentimes seeįluorine as a fluoride anion, so it has a negative one charge. So these halogens right over here, these really like to attract electrons to form a negative ion or an anion. Only one electron away from having an electronĬonfiguration like the noble gas to the right of each of them. The left of the noble gasses, we get to the halogens. Third shell and it's full, and so on and so forth. Helium's outer shell is theįirst shell and it's full. And that's because all of the noble gasses have full outer shells. They're very content, they don't wanna messĪround with anyone else. They're known as the noble gasses because they're very unreactive, We have around this octet rule are the group 18 elements right over here, also known as the noble gasses. Only has two electrons, is very, very, very stable. Octet rule is the first shell, where it is full with two electrons. For our second, third, fourth,įifth, and on and on shells, you're full when you have eight electrons. So just to remind ourselves, what does it mean to haveĪ full, full outer shell? Well, in general, people To having a full outer shell, either by losing electrons Video, I'm gonna focus most on the extremes of the periodic table, the groups at the left and the right, because those are the closest Similar valence electrons will have similar reactivities, Remember, valence electronsĪre the reactive electrons, the ones that might Have similar properties is, in most cases, they have the same number of valence electrons.

The elements in a given column might have very different atomic numbers, they all have similar properties. When we talk about a group, we're just talking about a column. And in particular, we're going to focus on groups of the periodic table of elements. The third shell has three subshells, labeled s, p, and d.- In this video, we're gonna gain even more appreciation for why the periodic table Because the second shell has only two subshells, atoms with more electrons now must begin the third shell. With neon, the 2 p subshell is completely filled. Thus, the electron configurations for the next six atoms are as follows: Now that the 2 s subshell is filled, electrons in larger atoms start filling the 2 p subshell. The next largest atom, beryllium, has 4 electrons, so its electron configuration is 1 s 22 s 2.

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