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Cl has a -1 charge, so 2 of them make make a -2 charge, and since NH3 is a neutral atom, you need the Pt to balance the Cl charges by giving it a +2 oxidation state

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Which has a higher electron affinity? I'm getting different answers from different sources
According to the trend, N would be higher, but some sources said because N has half its subshell filled, it's more stable than C that only has 2/6 e- in the p orbital - which is correct?

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Forming bonds releases energy because when bonds are formed, octets are filled, and it puts atoms at a lower energy state.

Because bonds are attractions between atoms, it takes energy to break them, because their tendency is to want to stay together.

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Yes, regions of e- density can either be bonds or lone pairs, and both affect the shape of a molecule. Lone pairs especially affect structure because they have large repulsion forces, and they can decrease bond angles by repelling atoms away more strongly than a normal atom would do.

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https://socratic.org/questions/5a64204ab72cff7b83554c78 This site has a really good summary! London forces/Van der Waal's forces is completely random and unrelated to electronegativity. Sometimes electrons happen to be closer to one molecule at a given time, creating contemporary partial negative ch...

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A sigma bond is a covalent bond which is formed by the head on overlap of two atomic orbitals. A Pi bond is a covalent bond which is formed by the side-to-side overlap of two atomic orbitals. Sigma bonds are relatively stronger when compared with pi bonds. So, pi bonds are easily broken while sigma ...

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A molecule can have a resonance structure when certain bond(s), usually a double or triple bond, can be placed in multiple locations around the central atom without changing the overall formal charges. It goes into more depth here! https://socratic.org/questions/how-can-i-determine-if-and-when-a-mol...

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Same formula of Formal Charge = Valence - (Lone Pair e- + 1/2Bonded e-), so for the # of lone pair e-, it would just be an odd number when dealing with radicals

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Mg commonly forms +2 ions since it has 2 valence e-, and Arsenic has 5 valence e-, so it needs 3 to fill its shell, according to the octet rule. So both elements' needs are met, use 3 Mg and 2AS to make As2Mg3!

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The Lewis structure for CO has 10 valence electrons. For the CO Lewis structure you'll need a triple bond between the Carbon and Oxygen atoms in order to satisfy the octets of each atom while still using the 10 valence electrons available for the CO molecule https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~wbreslyn/che...

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It's ok to break the octet rule when: 1. there are an odd number of valence electrons 2. there are too few valence electrons 3. there are too many valence electrons It lays it out nicely here! https://chem.libretexts.org/Core/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry/Chemical_Bonding/Lewis_Theory_of_Bondin...

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Formal energies/charges help you find the most stable Lewis structure, as well as confirm that it is a correct structure, because the addition of all of the formal charges of the atoms in a molecule should equal the overall charge of the molecule

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Resonance structures are just different, equally stable, Lewis structures for an atom, so they all have the same charge!

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Right, the first equation solving for frequency is just a manipulation of the second equation that finds levels at different energy shells!

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How did you get this answer?

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1. Can an e- get excited from 2s to 2p? Or when it gets excited, will it only jump n shells, not subshells?

2. If an e- goes from 2s to 2p, does its radius increase, or no because it's still in shell 2?

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I believe the energy of the electron increases, because when the e- is so far from the nucleus that it's unattached, energy level is 0, and as the e- comes closer and closer to the nucleus, its energy becomes more and more negative, losing energy. Therefore, the farther away it moves from the nucleu...

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https://youtu.be/-gCVrBPkk4A This video goes through how to write the structure for the BrO- ion
https://youtu.be/skbI-Wu1XME This video goes through the structure for the NH2- ion
They're both less than a minute!

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Yes, l refers to the subshells: s, p, d, f, and ml refers to the orbitals within the subshells, so for p when l = 1, ml = -1, 0, or 1 representing px, py, and pz orbitals

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Since e- spins on its axis it has an angular momentum and orbital angular momentum, the spin magnetic quantum number describes the angular momentum of the e-. This is a vector, which is why it has magnitude (1/2) and a direction (+/-) Since each orbital holds 2 e-, 1 will have a spin +1/2, and the o...

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3.29 x 10^15 is most helpful to us in the equations we're doing currently because it cancels out with the other units we're using. The other variation of the constant will probably be relevant in other contexts

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Yes! Depending on what information is given, and on what you're trying to solve, you use different variations of the equations to get the answer. Sometimes you need to solve one equation to get a value so you can use a different equation - the equations serve as different pathways to the answer!

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I asked my TA, and they said we should know that visible light comes from 400 nm (red) to 700 nm (violet), and know what comes right before and right after (infrared is around 10^-4 to 10^-6 and X-rays are around 10^-8 to 10^-10)

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As the energy levels increase, the distance between them decreases, so dropping from energy level 2 to 1 is falling the biggest distance, and therefore emitting the most energy. If an e- drops from energy level 3 to 2, and then 2 to 1, at separate points in time, it will emit 2 photos, but the sum o...

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This site has super helpful pictures! https://study.com/academy/lesson/constructive-and-destructive-interference.html Basically, if the peaks and troughs of 2 waves happen at the same time, it'll create larger peaks and larger troughs because the energies combine. However, if the peak of one wave ha...

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Yes! That's also the same thing is dividing by 10^-9 for nm or 10^-12 for picometers, if that is easier to visualize for dimensional analysis

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If you're asked to find the concentration of Na ions when there's a solution of a molecule ex. NaCl, you just use the molar ratios to find the concentration! In this example, the ratio of Na+ ions to NaCl is 1:1, so if the NaCl solutions is 0.2 M, then the concentration of Na+ ions is 0.2 once the s...

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What was the photoelectric experiment originally designed to do? I didn't catch this from the lecture or module video, and I'm not really sure A. Measure how much energy is required to remove an electron from a metal surface. B. Measure how much energy is required to add an electron to a metal surfa...

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To make it clear where you're getting your numbers from, it could be helpful to include units, but as long as it's clear without them what you're doing, and you get the right answer and give it with the correct units, I bet it'll be okay!

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To be safe, you can use the more specific mass - I always just use 1.008 which is the value most periodic tables have, and uses the same number of sig figs that are other atomic masses are given in (ex. 12.011 for C, 15.999 for O) In the modules, the atomic mass has been given a lot of the time, so ...

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Use dimensional analysis when you have a quantity in terms of one type of units, but you need to convert it to another type of units. Some people like to do this 1. step by step, ex. converting g to mol, then a separate equation for mols to atoms, etc. 2. Others like to do this all in 1 step, like b...

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