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Why aren't other elements with valence 6s electrons liquid like mercury?
I found out that mercury's 6s electrons undergo relativistic effects that make their pull to the nucleus greater, which makes it so that they can't bond with other atoms of mercury to form a solid. ...
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Some advice on inorganic textbook [duplicate]
I'd like to have some advice on Inorganic textbooks.
I've already consulted some books (Kettle, Drago, Keiter, Cotton) and they are all very useful, but now I'm searching for a textbook which focuses ...
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Is the periodic table ordered by bonded atoms and does that change the electron configurations and ordering? [closed]
In my book (Mortimer, The Basic Knowledge of Chemistry) the electron structure of the elements is introduced, there the relative energies of the atomic orbitals are shown:
1s < 2s < 2p < 3s &...
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The quantum mechanics behind periodicity of elements
Especially in high school/first-year undergraduate chemistry courses, we learn with great dedication the periodicities along groups and periods. There are various useful and interesting trends.
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Why ground-state configuration is consistent ("additive") from one element to the next?
Ground-state configuration ("electron shells") is consistent throughout the periodic table, for example:
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Why is it this way if the Hamiltonian of each atom is different? In other words, why ...
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Periodic table- quantum numbers
I have come across many questions like: "if electron had 3 spins (-1/2,0,+12) then what change will be there in the periodic table?", also sometimes " if the capacity of each orbital becomes 5 then in ...
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What is the inert pair effect?
I was reading about the p-block elements and found that the inert pair effect is mentioned everywhere in this topic. However, the book does not explain it very well. So, what is the inert pair effect? ...
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Did Mendeleev predict the existence of neutrinos?
According to this Wikipedia page, Mendeleev originally believed that the inert gases belonged in Group 0 (to the left of the alkali metals). Thus, helium would be placed in the second period to the ...
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