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Answers To End-Of-Chapter Questions For Chapter 5, Ionic Compounds

The document provides answers to end-of-chapter questions for a chemistry chapter on ionic compounds. It addresses questions about ionic bonding and naming ionic compounds, including diagrams showing electron transfers between atoms to form ions. It also covers the relationship between an element's group number and its ion charge.

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Answers To End-Of-Chapter Questions For Chapter 5, Ionic Compounds

The document provides answers to end-of-chapter questions for a chemistry chapter on ionic compounds. It addresses questions about ionic bonding and naming ionic compounds, including diagrams showing electron transfers between atoms to form ions. It also covers the relationship between an element's group number and its ion charge.

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GCSE Chemistry for You, Fifth Edition

Answers to End-of-chapter questions


for Chapter 5, Ionic compounds

It is very important that you are able to answer the questions on your own, using your
own knowledge of Chemistry.
Have a go at the questions first, and then check your answers using this page.
If you get a question wrong, try to work out where you have made an error.

1. Ionic; positively; negatively; giant; high; dissolve; electricity; solid

2. copper oxide, zinc chloride, lead bromide and potassium fluoride – they are
compounds of a metal and a non-metal

3. a) Diagram showing the outer electron from Li atom (2,1) being transferred to F
+ -
atom (2,7) to form Li ion (2) and F ion (2,8)
b) Diagram showing the outer electron from K atom (2,8,8,1) being transferred
+ -
to Cl atom (2,8,7) to form K ion (2,8,8) and Cl ion (2.8,8)

4.

- - 2-
Fluoride, F Iodide, I Sulfate, SO4

+ LiF LiI
Lithium, Li Li2SO4

2+
Calcium, Ca CaF2 CaI2 CaSO4

+
Iron(III), Fe3 FeF3 FeI3 Fe2(SO4)3

5. a) Diagram showing the outer 2 electrons from Mg atom (2,8,2) being


2+
transferred to two F atoms (2,7), 1 electron to each F atom, to form Mg ion
-
(2,8) and two F ions (2,8)
b) Diagram showing the outer 2 electrons from Mg atom (2,8,2) both being
2+ 2-
transferred to O atom (2,6) to form Mg ion (2,8,) and O ion (2,8)

6. a) Group number equals the size of the positive charge on the ions.

b) 8 - Group number = size of charge on negative ion

c) Carbon has 4 electrons in its outer shell so would need to either lose 4
electrons or gain 4 electrons to gain the electronic structure of a noble gas – either
involves too much energy to ever happen.

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+
d) Hydrogen can either lose one electron, leaving an H ion which has no
-
electrons at all – leaving just a proton, or it can gain an electron to from the H ion which
has the same electron structure as the noble gas helium.

e) Because the atoms of Group 1 elements, such as lithium, all lose one
electron to form ions with a 1+ charge (and hydrogen can also form a 1+ ion). However,
hydrogen can also form 1- ions, just like the atoms of the elements in Group 7, such as
fluorine, when their atoms gain one electron.

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