Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The periodic table
and its development
- The early periodic table
- Newlands' law of octaves
- Spotted a pattern
when arranging
elements in order of
atomic mass
- Noticed properties of elements
repeat every eighth element
- 'Law of Octaves'
- Inconsistencies in his method meant
his ideas weren't accepted at the time
- Mendeleev's achievement
- Same idea as Newland
but noticed undiscovered
elements which he left
gaps shown by * in the
table
- Allowed him to organise table in a
repeating pattern
- Elements with
similar properties
occur in groups at
regular intervals -
periods
- Changing the order
- Following the discovery of protons, neutrons
and electrons, it became clear that elements
should be placed in order of atomic number not
mass
- Mendeleev thought the atomic masses of
some elements had been measured
inaccurately but he'd placed the elements
in order of atomic number without
realising
- Mendeleev's table was
accepted because of his
remarkable predictions
turning out to be correct
- The modern periodic table
- Structure
- Elements are arranged by proton number
- Making elements naturally fall into groups with similar properties
- Electronic Structure and the periodic table
- Atomic number describes the number of protons in the atom
- Therefore also the number of electrons
and their arrangement around the
nucleus
- Pattern is directly linked to the way in which
electrons are arranged around the atoms of each
element
- Period number tells you how many
energy levels containing electrons
the element has
- Group number tells you how many electrons
an element has in its outer energy level
- Periodic table predicts the chemical properties of elements
- Metals
- Found in the middle and on the left of the periodic table
- Groups 1 and 2 contain very
reactive but quote soft metals with
low melting points
- The transition metals block contains
'everyday' metals such as iron and
copper
- Not as reactive as group 1 and 2 but are harder, stronger and have higher melting points
- Non-metals
- Found to the right of the table
- Groups 6 and 7 contain reactive non-metals
- Gases at the top but solids further down
- Group 0 contains the Noble gases, highly un-reactive metals
- Groups 3,4 and 5
- Elements at the top are non-metals
- More metallic as you move down
- Boundary between non-metals and
metals zig-zags down the right
- Elements on the boundary show intermediate
properties between non-metals and metals
- semi-conductors e.g. silicon
- Group 1 - the alkali metals
- Physical properties
- All soft and conduct heat and electricity
- Freshly cut is shiny but
soon tarnishes in the air
- etals have low density and relatively low melting and boiling points
- Typical chemical reactions
- React with water and oxygen in the air (which is
why they tarnish)
- Put in oil to stop this from happening
- All have one outer electron
- When they react, they lose this electron and form 1+ions
- When they react with
non-metals, they form ionic
compounds
- These compounds are white and
dissolve in water to form colourless
solutions
- When reacted with water, they form a metal hydroxide and hydrogen
- The metal hydroxides dissolve in water, making an alkaline solution.
- Trends in chemical properties
- Reactions get more vigorous as you go down
- Because alkali metals react by losing their lone outer electron
- Atoms get bigger as you go
down the group as more
energy levels are added
- Means lone outer electron is further
away from positive nucleus
increasingly screened by the inner
electron shells
- Reduces attraction from the nucleus to the outer electron and makes the electron easier to lose
- The bigger the atom, the more reactive the metal
- Transition metals
- 'Everyday' metals
- Include most of the metals used
for Construction, Machinery,
Vehicles, Wiring etc.
- Conduct heat and electricity
- Compared with group 1 metals, the transition metals:
- Higher melting points
- Higher densities
- Stronger and harder
- Much less reactive
- Special properties
- Catlysts
- Compounds containing transition metals are usually coloured
- Some statues and roofs are made of copper
- Many gemstones are coloured by transition metal compounds
- Used in some paint pigments and ceramic glazes
- Group 7 - Halogens
- Coloured non-metals
- Non-metals with coloured vapours
- All made of molecules
- They don't conduct heat or electricity
- Low melting and boiling points
- Forces between molecules are weak
- Chemical Properties
- All react with metals to form ionic compounds containing halide ions
- Electrons are transferred
from the metal atoms to the
halogen atoms, forming halide
ions with a 1- electric charge
- Halogens react with non-metals
to form molecular compounds
containing covalent bonds
- Electrons are shared between atoms
- Reactivity
- ess reactive as you go down the gorup
- When reacted the atoms gain an electron
- Atoms get bigger down the gorup
- Electron gained is further from the nucleus
- Attraction of the nucleus for the
electron being gained is weaker and
so the electron is harder to gain
- A more reactive halogen will displace a
less reactive halogen from a compound in
a displacement reaction