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Assignment of Chemistry (Ch # 4) Date: __________
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Note: - Answer the following questions!
1. Why does sodium form a chemical bond with chlorine?
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2. Why does sodium lose an electron and attains +1 charge?

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3. How do atoms follow octet rule?

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4. Which electrons are involved in chemical bonding?

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5. Why does group 1 elements prefer to combine with group 17 elements.

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6. Why chlorine can accept only 1 electron?

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7. Give the electronic configuration of carbon atom.

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8. What type of elements have tendency of sharing of electrons?

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9. If repulsive forces dominate to attractive forces will a covalent bond form?

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10. Considering the electronic configuration of nitrogen atom, how many electrons are involved in bond
formation and what type of covalent bond is formed.
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11. Point out the type of covalent bonds in the following molecules, CH4, C2 H4, H2, N2, and O2
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12. What is a lone pair? How many lone pairs of electrons are present on nitrogen in ammonia?
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13. Why is the BF3 electron deficient?

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14. What types of electron pairs make a molecule good donor?

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15. What is difference between bonded and lone pair of electron and how many bonded pair of electrons are
present in NH3 molecule?
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16. What do you mean by delta sign and why it develops?

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17. Why does oxygen molecule not form a polar covalent bond?
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18. Why has water polar covalent bonds?

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19. What type of elements form metallic bonds?

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20. Why is the hold of nucleus over the outermost electrons in metals weak?
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21. Why the electrons move freely in metals?

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22. Which types of electrons are responsible for holdings the atoms together in metals.
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23. Why a dipole develops in a molecule?

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24. What do you mean by induced dipole?

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25. Why are dipole forces of attraction not found in halogen molecules?
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26. What types of attractive forces exist between HCl molecules?

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27. Define intermolecular forces; show these forces among HCl molecule?
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28. Why the ionic compounds have high melting and boiling points?
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29. What do you mean by malleability?

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30. Why are ionic compounds easily soluble in water?

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31. What type of bond exists in sodium chloride?

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32. Why the covalent compounds of bigger size molecules have high melting points?
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33. (a): What is the electronegativity difference between the following pair of elements (atoms). Predict the
nature of the bond between them?
(a) H and CI (b)H and Na (c) Na and I (d) K and CI
(b): Comparing the electronegativity differences, arrange these compounds in increasing ionic strength?
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Exercise Short Questions

1. Why do atoms react?
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2. Why is the bond between an electropositive and an electronegative atom ionic in nature?
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3. Ionic compounds are solids. Justify.

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4. More electronegative elements can form bonds between themselves. Justify.

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5. Metals are good conductor of electricity. Why?

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6. Ionic compounds conduct electricity in solution or molten form. Why?

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7. What type of covalent bond is formed in nitrogen molecule.

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8. Differentiate between lone pair and bond pair of electrons.

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9. Describe at least two necessary conditions for the formation of a covalent bond.
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10. Why HCl has dipole-dipole forces of attraction?

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11. What is a triple covalent bond, explain with an example?

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12. What is difference between polar and non-polar covalent bonds, explain with one example of each?
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13. Why a covalent bond becomes polar?

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14. What is relationship between electronegativity and polarity?

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15. Why does ice float on water?

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16. Give the characteristic properties of ionic compounds.

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17. What characteristic properties do the covalent compound have?

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Exercise Long Questions

1. What is an ionic bond? Discuss the formation of ionic bond between sodium and chlorine atoms?
2. How can you justify that bond strength in polar covalent compounds is comparable to that of ionic compound?
3. What type of covalent bonds are formed between hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen? Explain their bonding with
dot and cross model.
4. How a covalent bond develops ionic character in it? Explain.
5. Explain the types of covalent bonds with at least one example of each type.
6. How a coordinate covalent bond is formed? Explain with examples?
7. What is metallic bond? Explain the metallic bonding with the help of a diagram.
8. Define hydrogen bonding. Explain that how these forces affect the physical properties of compounds.
9. What are intermolecular forces? Compare these forces with chemical bond forces with reference to HCl
molecule?
10. What is a chemical bond and why do atoms form a chemical bond?
11. What is octet rule? Why do atoms always struggle to attain the nearest noble gas electronic configuration?

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