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Category: Inorganic chemistry

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Writing the electron configuration for a transition metal

Posted on May 13, 2024June 17, 2024 Sarah Parkes

The transition metals are d-block elements (Groups 3-12 of the Periodic Table) whose atoms have a partially filled d-orbital or

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Cat Links Fundamentals, Inorganic chemistry

Bonding in the nitrogen oxides and oxyanions

Posted on March 22, 2024April 24, 2025 Sarah Parkes

Nitrogen bonds with oxygen to from a number of oxides and oxyanions, the most common of which are listed below

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Explaining trends in the oxides of Period 3

Posted on February 28, 2024April 24, 2025 Sarah Parkes

The trend in the bonding and structure of the Period 3 oxides can be explained in terms of the increasing

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The elements of Period 3

Posted on February 15, 2024February 27, 2024 Sarah Parkes

Atomic radius Dedicated post explaining the trend in atomic radius is right here! Melting points and structure The melting point

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Cat Links Fundamentals, Inorganic chemistry

Explaining the trend in atomic radius across Period 3

Posted on February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 Sarah Parkes

Before we jump straight in, we really need to define how we measure the radius of an atom … This

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Explaining the chemistry of the Group 7, the halogens

Posted on October 6, 2023February 18, 2025 Sarah Parkes

Group 7 consists of the elements fluorine, chorine, bromine, iodine and astatine, and they are known as the halogens. All

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Explaining the chemistry of Group 2 metals

Posted on August 15, 2023September 30, 2024 Sarah Parkes

When we consider the elements of Group 2 we are invariably only investigating magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium. All isotopes

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What are autocatalytic reactions?

Posted on May 15, 2023June 21, 2024 Sarah Parkes

If we were to measure the change in concentration of a reactant over time and then plot a graph of

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Cat Links Inorganic chemistry, Physical chemistry

Heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic converters

Posted on July 13, 2022October 2, 2024 Sarah Parkes

Catalysts are able to lower the activation enthalpy, Ea, for a reaction, increasing the number of successful collisions between reactants

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Cat Links Fundamentals, Inorganic chemistry

Using oxidation states to balance half equations

Posted on May 17, 2022October 2, 2024 Sarah Parkes

Often writing a half equation to show reduction or oxidation is straight forward – all we need to do is

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