Isoelectronic examples

[Brenda Tran 3C]

Hello! Can someone explain why Na+, Mg2+, and F- are isoelectronic?

[Neelaj Das 3I]

These atoms are all isoelectronic because they all have the same number of electrons despite being different elements. Sodium's atomic number is 11, so in its ground state it has 11 electrons. However, due to the positive 1 charge, Na+ actually has 10 electrons. If you count the electrons for Mg2+ and F- in a similar fashion, you can see that they also each have 10 electrons. This makes these atoms isoelectronic.

[Christina Gigoux 1D]

Isoelectronic atoms are atoms with the same number of electrons and therefore the same electron configurations. An important thing to mention with isoelectronic atoms is that this doesn't mean that they have the same properties. Although Na+, Mg2+, and F- all have 10 electrons, they have different numbers of protons and neutrons, causing their properties to be different.

[Jocelynn Franco 1L]

These atoms are all isoelectronic because they all have the same number of electrons despite being different elements. Sodium's atomic number is 11, so in its ground state it has 11 electrons. However, due to the positive 1 charge, Na+ actually has 10 electrons. If you count the electrons for Mg2+ and F- in a similar fashion, you can see that they also each have 10 electrons. This makes these atoms isoelectronic.

So they're isoelectronic to one another? Is that how Isoelectronic atoms/ions work, It just depends on the amount of electrons they each have and it could be said that they are isoelectronic to one another?

[Jocelynn Franco 1L]

These atoms are all isoelectronic because they all have the same number of electrons despite being different elements. Sodium's atomic number is 11, so in its ground state it has 11 electrons. However, due to the positive 1 charge, Na+ actually has 10 electrons. If you count the electrons for Mg2+ and F- in a similar fashion, you can see that they also each have 10 electrons. This makes these atoms isoelectronic.

So they're isoelectronic to one another? Is that how Isoelectronic atoms/ions work, It just depends on the amount of electrons they each have and it could be said that they are isoelectronic to one another?

[Nishan Reddy 3K]

They are all isotronic because they have the same number of electrons since the ions either gained or lost electrons to achieve the equivalent number of electrons as normal Neon.