Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Periodic Trends
Today in class we learned about periodic trends. I understand about 3/4 of it. I'm kinda worried because the test is on Thursday and I'm not fully understanding this. I get that atoms get bigger from top to bottom and right to left. I understand that ionization energy is greater from left to right. But the other one I don't get. I get that atoms get smaller or bigger by that if they lose or gain electrons but I don't get the other energy about gaining electrons and how it's gains energy left to right when non metals don't need much energy to accept electrons since they automatically do. I get it takes more energy for ionization for non metals to give away electrons since they normally don't do that. I don't know I'm just very confused right now.
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I felt the same way leading up to the test! With all of these trends and rules to memorize, I felt like I was drowning in an elemental lake!
ReplyDeleteThere was a lot to memorize this unit, and I also found that quite stressful leading up to the test!
ReplyDeleteI had a hard time memorizing the trends too, some of them I just didn't really understand until I found some helpful videos.
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