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umka2103 [35]
3 years ago
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A sample of soil from a newly discovered cave is analyzed by a team of explorers. They find an element that is a good conductor

of electricity. It also forms a chloride in the form XCl2 and an oxide in the form XO. The element is a liquid at room temperature. What is the identity of this element? Express your answer using a chemical symbol.
Chemistry
1 answer:
kipiarov [429]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

Hg

Explanation:

We are given information about the unknown element, and using each characteristic, we can narrow down the possible elements until we have just one possibility left.

Conducts electricity: This means that the element has to be a metal, or a semi-metal, because non-metals cannot conduct electricity.

Forming chloride and oxide ions: When it is seen that it forms chloride and oxide ions in the form of XCl₂ and XO, it can be seen that this element has an ionic charge of +2. This narrows it down to the elements in <u>Group 2.</u>

Liquid at room temperature: This is tricky, because we realize that there are no elements in group 2 that are liquid at room temperature. So hence we can look at groups 3 to 12, and see if there are any liquid metals with an ionic charge of +2.

Taking all this information into account, we can see that the only element it can be is mercury (Hg).

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