General Periodicity
Periodicity
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What is periodicity?
Periodicity is the study of the trends in chemical and physical
properties of the elements and their compounds relative to their
positions in the periodic table.
The periodic table has been developed over the last 150 years. The
basic structure of the table is very closely related to our current
understanding of the electronic structure of the elements. However,
when the periodic table was first constructed (by Mendeleev, in the
1800's ), the electronic structure of the elements had not been
devised.
Instead, early forms of the periodic table relied on using the
physical properties of the elements known at that time. It must have
been a great revelation to the chemists from the early part of this
century to realise that there really was such a strong correlation
between chemical properties of the elements and their physical
structure.
The periodic table.
An example of a periodic table is given below :
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The elements in the columns down the periodic table form groups. The
major groups are numbered but often the numbers are given as Roman
numerals (the first group, the blue column in the above diagram, is
referred to as group I etc).
Elements within the same group similar chemical properties but often
show a systematic variation in extent or speed of reaction as the
group is descended.
For example all of the group one elements (the alkali metals) react
vigorously with water to form water soluble alkalis with the
subsequent production of hydrogen gas.
However, the speed of reaction increases down the group (lithium only
reacts relatively slowly with water but francium and rubidium are
explosive in the presence of water)
The rows across the periodic table are known as periods. The chemistry
of the elements within each period will tend to change quite
dramatically but we can still determine trends in some physical
properties and the nature of some common reactions.
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An elements¡¦ reaction to certain substances may be predicted by its placement on the Periodic Table of Elements. Across a period, an element on the left will react with more vigor than one on the right, of the same period. Vertically, as elements are sectioned into groups, the reaction of each element increases as you move down in the same group. With this in mind, the reactions of the substances involved in this experiment may be hypothesized, observed, and validated.
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