Answer: Metals form cations.
The alkali metals (the IA elements) lose a single electron to form a cation with a 1+ charge.
The alkaline earth metals (IIA elements) lose two electrons to form a 2+ cation.
Aluminum, a member of the IIIA family, loses three electrons to form a 3+ cation.
Therefore, metals in the s and p block of the periodic table have 1, 2 or 3 electrons in their outermost orbit (or valence shell). Now to gain a stable octet metals lose either 1, 2 or 3 electrons from the valence shell thus forming cation with +1, +2 or +3 charge.
Explanation :
As we know that Mendeleev arranged the elements in horizontal rows and vertical columns of a table in order of their increasing relative atomic weights.
He placed the elements with similar nature in the same group.
According to the question, the atomic weight of iodine is less than the atomic weight of tellurium. So according to this, iodine should be placed before tellurium in Mendeleev's tables. But Mendeleev placed iodine after tellurium in his original periodic table.
However, iodine has similar chemical properties to chlorine and bromine. So, in order to make iodine queue up with chlorine and bromine in his periodic table, Mendeleev exchanged the positions of iodine and tellurium.
As we know that the positions of iodine and tellurium were reversed in Mendeleev's table because iodine has one naturally occurring isotope that is iodine-127 and tellurium isotopes are tellurium-128 and tellurium-130.
Due to high relative abundance of tellurium isotopes gives tellurium the greater relative atomic mass.
The correct option is A.
In scientific investigation, variable refers to those parameters that are manipulated or changed in an experiment. Variables are those factors or conditions that can exist in different amounts in a scientific investigation. There are three major types of experimental variables, these are, independent, dependent and controlled variables. All the variables that are used in an experiment are usually connected to one another, scientific investigators typically look for the relationships among the variables in order to depict how they associate with one another.
The percent composition of the compound.
A O-18.18%, N-21.21%, H-60.60%
<h3>Further explanation</h3>
Given
6.00 grams of oxygen,
7.00 grams of nitrogen,
20.00 grams of hydrogen.
Required
The percent composition
Solution
Total mass :
= mass of O + mass of N + mass of H
= 6 + 7 + 20
= 33 g
% O = 6/33 x 100%= 18.18%
% N = 7/33 x 100%=21.21%
% H = 20/33 x 100% = 60.6 %
