3.1 Ionic Compounds Containing Monatomic Ions:

1. What are ionic compounds composed of?

2. What are the simplest type of ionic compounds?

3. How are monatomic ions formed?

4. How are monatomic cation formed?

5. How are monatomic anion?

6. What is an ionic bond?

7. True or false are ionic bond strong or weak? and what is the only way to break an ionic bond?

Monatomic Cations and Anions:

result from the loss of one or more valence electrons from a metal atom

2. ---

   result from the gain of one or more electrons by a nonmetal atom

3. Have a positive electrical charge =

4. Have a negative electrical charge

5. True or False; ions have a charge because they do not contain an equal number of protons minus the number of electrons in the ion.

6. Formula for charge:

7. What are electrolytes?

8. What are the most important electrolytes in the body?

Groups 1A, 2A, and 3A Cations:

1. What is so special about Beryllium and Boron when it comes to loosing cations?

2. True or false? noble gases have no partially filled energy levels.

3. What is something common in all alkali metals?

Group 4A Metal and Transition Metal Cations:

1. What happens to group 4A metals when becoming cations?

2. Heavy metals, what are they?

Groups 5A, 6A, and 7A Anions:

1. ---

   atoms gain the number of electrons needed to fill their valence energy level

2. What is the formula for magnitude of charge on anion?

3. How do you name a monatomic anion?

Writing the Formula Unit for an Ionic Compound:

1. Formula Unit:

2. What is written first in a formula unit, the cation or the anion.

3. Subscripts and what does it mean when there is no subscript under a formula unit

4. Why are subscripts included and what are they trying to indicate?

Writing the Name of an Ionic Compound from its formula unit: