Answer:Gained, Lost , Shared
Explanation:
The oxidation state tells you how many electrons an atom has GAINED.................. , LOST....................... , or SHARED........................ , in forming a compound.
Oxidation state is defined as the the total number of electrons that an atom gains or loses when forming a chemical bond with another atom.
----To form an ionic bond for example in NaCl, Na, with 11 electrons and one valence electron in its outermost shell donates or lose that valence electron to Chlorine with 17 electron and 7 in its outermost shell. Therefore Sodium, Na acquires the +1 oxidaton state to become stable and Chlorine acquires the -1 oxidation state to become stable forming the NaCl compound.
To form a covalent compound, There must be sharing of electrons between atoms.For example, in PCl3, The phosphorous atom with atomic number 15 shares its three unpaired electrons with the single valence electrons of three chlorine atoms. making the four molecules to attain stability with Phosphorous having +3 and the chlorine atoms having -1 oxidation states
Answer: Option (a) is the correct answer.
Explanation:
Since it is given that the mass of a jelly bean is less than the mass of a gum drop.
So, when we counted out 10 of each kind of candy and measured the mass of each kind of candy, the mass of the jellybeans would be less than the mass of the gumdrops.
This is because mass of jelly bean is less and even if we take take or more jelly beans then also their total mass will remain less than the total mass of same number of gum drops.
Answer:
Methane is a covalent bond. Methane is a chemical compound from the bonding one carbon atom and for hydrogen atoms. Although electronegativity increases as you go right of the periodic table, hydrogen has an electronegativity of 2.20. Chlorine has an electronegativity of 2.55. There difference in electron negativity (0.34). Therefore it is a non polar compound. If there difference was much greater, than they would form a ionic bond. Alkali metals tend to form the most ionic bond, but although hyrdogen is placed with them, it has a higher electronegativity so hydrogen is an exception.
Carbon has 4 valence electrons so it will want to gain 4 more electrons to become stable (Octet rule). Hydrogen has 1 valence electron, so it will want to lose it to become stable. Therefore, one carbon atom takes 1 electrons from 4 hydrogen atoms.
