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Artyom0805 [142]
3 years ago
14

Zinc phosphide, Zn3P2, is often used as a rat poison. Phosphorus has 5 valence electrons. How many valence electrons does each z

inc atom lose?
Chemistry
2 answers:
Helen [10]3 years ago
8 0
The choices that should have accompanied this question were:
A. 1 
<span>B. 2 </span>
<span>C. 3 </span>
<span>D. 4 
</span>
My answer is B. 2.
Below is an explanation, I found while doing the research.

<span>Phosphate needs 3 electrons each totaling 6 electrons so each zinc will need to give up 2 electrons.

Phosphate wants to imitate the electron configuration of Argon because noble configurations are the most stable. With P getting the extra electrons the valence shell will be 3s2 3p6, which is the same as Argon. Without the extra electrons, the P valence shell looks like this 3s2 3p3, now you can see why each phosphorus wants 3 more electrons, that will make it 3s2 3p6, just like Argon.</span>
ryzh [129]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

The correct answer is two valence electrons.

Explanation:

Hello! We will answer this!

As the phosphorus has 5 valence electrons, in the first layer it has 2, so the ones it combines are 3. In total there are 6 negative phosphorus charges because they are two phosphorus atoms. The number of Zinc atoms is 3 so to balance the loads, you have to have +2 so that in total there are 6 charges.

The correct answer is two valence electrons.

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