Purchase Solution

Understanding periodic trends in electronegativity

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Rank the following in order of increasing electronegativity: N,P,O

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The order of increasing electronegativity is determined. Nitrogen, phosphorus and oxygen is examined.

Solution Preview

Background information: Trends in Electronegativity

What is electronegativity?
A measure of the tendency of an element to attract additonal electrons in a chemical reaction.

PERIODIC TRENDS: Electronegativities increase ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Periodic table

General Chemistry - Classification of Matter

This test will assess your knowledge on the classification of matter which includes elements, compounds and mixtures.

Organic Chemistry Naming: Alkanes

This is a quiz which is designed to assist students with learning the nomenclature used to identify organic compounds. This quiz focuses on the organic compounds called Alkanes.

Thermochemistry

The quiz helps in revising basic concepts about thermochemistry.

Match Elements with their Symbols

Elements are provided: choose the matching one- or two-letter symbol for each element.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Valence electrons & electronic charge on elements & molecule

    Trends in electronegativity across a period As you go across a period the electronegativity increases. Electronegativity increases across a period because the number of charges on the nucleus increases.

  • Group Trends: Metallic Character and Increasing Acidity

    311656 Group Trends: Metallic Character and Increasing Acidity 1) For each of the following pairs, which element will have the greater metallic character.

  • Learning Goal with Bloom's Taxonomy

    Covalent compounds are compounds in which electrons are shared (usually 2 non-metals on the right side of the periodic table). Ionic compounds are compounds in which electrons are transferred (usually a metal and a non-metal).

  • Pauling's Electronegativity Scale to Estimate the Percent Covalent Nature of Compounds

    For the molecules listed above, you need the electronegativity numbers for each atom in the molecule. You can find these values from your chemistry textbook or on a website for electronegativity values of atoms in the periodic table.

  • Wood Preservatives: Polarity and Natrural Alternatives

    Bond polarity is a result of a difference in electronegativity between the elements in the bond. Electronegativity is quantified by the Pauling Electronegativity scale, but a rough idea regarding electronegativity can be gained by a simpler method.

  • Understanding periodic trends: atomic radius

    7455 Understanding periodic trends: atomic radius Arrange the following atoms in order of increasing atomic radius: S, P, O Understanding trends in atomic radius: PERIODIC TRENDS: From left to right across a period of the periodic table, atomic

  • Periodicity and Chemical Bonding

    How does ionization energy change as one proceeds a) across the periodic table in a horizontal row b) down the periodic table in a vertical group Give an explanation for each answer. 2.

  • Organic chemistry ACQ questions

    complete their octate configuration of the outer shell so they are stable to the nearset nobel gas soressponding them in the periodic table in this state.

  • Atomic Mass and Ionic & Covalent Bonding

    Covalent bonds are formed between elements of similar electronegativity whereas ionic bonds are formed between elements of very different electronegativity.

View More Related Solutions