Ionic Bonding Quiz

Ionic compounds are ____ at room temp

crystalline solids

Ionic compounds have ____ melting and boiling points

very high

What happens when ionic compounds are melted or dissolved in a liquid?

conducts electricity

Octet rule

atoms gain, lose or share electrons to achieve octet of eletrons

Lewis dot structure order

pair up 1-2, 3-5 separate, 6-8 paired up

Nonmetals anions or cations

anions

anion suffix

ide

metals anions or cations

cations

cation name

“metal ion”

Suffixes of polyatomic ions

ite/ate

Crystal lattice structure

organized system of cations and anions

Formula unit of ionic compound

simplest whole-number ratio of ions in compound

what comes first when writing formula units?

cation before anion

3 transition metals without variable charges

silver, zinc, cadmium

Why do some elements have variable charges

Considered stability in half filled sublevel which can occur in addition to normal cation/anion