Answer:
- <u>Cadmium has larger atomic radius than sulfur.</u>
Explanation:
Down a period, atomic radii decrease from left to right due to the increase in the number of protons and electrons across a period: when a proton is added the pull of the electrons towards the nucleus is larger, so the size of the atom decreases.
Hence, you can compare the elements that belong to a same period and predict that the atom with lower atomic number (number of protons) will haver larger atomic radius. With that:
- Oxygen and fluorine are in the period 3, being oxygen to the left of fluorine, so oxygen is larger than fluorine.
- Sulfur and chlorine are in the period 4, being sulfur to the left of chlorine, so sulfur is larger than chlorine.
Now see whan happens down a group. Atomic radius increases from top to bottom within a group due to electron shielding. That permits you to compare the size of the elements in a group:
- Fluorine and chlorine are in the same group (17), with chlorine directly below fluorine, so the atomic radius of chlorine is larger than the atomic radius of fluorine.
- Sulfur and oxygen are in the same group (16), with sulfur directlly below oxygen, so sulfur the atomic radius of sulfur is larger than the atocmi radius of oxygen.
So far, you can rank the atomic radius of sulfur, chlorine, fluorine, and oxygen, in increasing order as:
- O < F < Cl < S, concluding that O, F, and Cl have smaller atomic radius than S.
Cadmiun, Cd, is to the left and below sulfur, so both electron shielding (down a group) and increase of the number of protons (down a period) lead to predict the cadmium has a larger atomic radius than sulfur.
Answer:
are the best type of scientific investigation to demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships because they allow the investigator to actively manipulate variables and control conditions.
Answer: the percentage of acetic acid will be low.
Explanation: The major aim during titration of acids and bases is to determine the endpoint , that is exact point where the acid in the beaker changes colour, (in this case, pink )with an additional drop from the burette containing the base, since it is usually difficult to mark the equivalence point that tells us when all the substrate in the beaker has been neutralized completely with the buretted substance.
Overshooting the end point is an error which can occur when the person involved in the the titration accidently goes beyond this endpoint by adding too much of the substance(base) from the burette into the beaker missing the exact endpoint.
This implies that the person has added too much of the burreted liquid, ie the base than required , making the acid in the beaker to continue to react resulting to a lower concentration of the acid (acetic acid) with excess base.(NaOH)
same number of protons and different number of neutrons are called isotopes
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