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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS:
1. As elements, both sodium and chlorine are very reactive due to their electron configurations.
Their reactivity makes them harmful to biological systems; elemental sodium and chlorine
are both toxic substances; chlorine was a primitive chemical weapon used in the Great War
1914 - 1918. Sodium has one valence electron, while chlorine has seven valence electrons.
Thus, both elements have incomplete octets. Sodium will lose one electron and chlorine will
gain one electron to form a chemical bond. In the formation of sodium chloride, both atoms
are now stable due to filled octets in their outer Bohr orbits. Therefore sodium and chloride
when bonded together are relatively harmless.
2. Sodium is a reactive element because it has only one electron in the outer Bohr orbit. When
placed in water, the sodium reacts by donating its valence electrons with water molecules.
The fizzing noise and sparks flying are evidence of a chemical reaction occurring.
3. In the Lewis dot structure, the dots surrounding the elements indicate the number of valence
electrons. Ionic bonding is represented by moving dots from the Lewis structure of the metal
to the Lewis structure of the nonmetal to give both elements a complete octet. This
corresponds to a stable configuration, because the outermost occupied Bohr orbit contains an
octet for each element. In the process, the metal and nonmetal each acquire a charge, the
metal becomes positive (loss of electrons) and the nonmetal becomes negative (gain of
electrons). Since opposite charges attract each other, there is a strong attractive force
between the ions.
4. Covalent bonding is the sharing of pairs of electrons between two atoms. A consequence of
this sharing is that the shared dots (electrons) effectively count towards the octet of each
bonded atom. By sharing one or more pairs of electrons, atoms can achieve complete octets
in their outer orbits. Two types of electron pairs exist in the Lewis structure. The electrons
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between two atoms are called bonding pair electrons, while those on a single atom are called
lone pair electrons.
5. The Lewis theory is useful because it explains why elements combine in the observed ratios
and allows one to predict the molecules that would form from certain elements. For
example, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine all exist as diatomic molecules in nature,
just as predicted by the Lewis theory. In addition, magnesium fluoride is composed of two
fluoride ions and one magnesium ion, just as predicted by the Lewis theory.
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2e 8e 6e
.
:S:
Lewis dot structure for the S atom: .
. . .. ..
Na. . P:
Al: . :Cl:
. .. 7.
:Ar:
Na and Cl would be the most chemically reactive. Ar would be the least reactive since it
contains an octet of valence electrons.
8. VSEPR is an acronym for valence shell electron pair repulsion. This model or theory is
useful in predicting the geometries of molecules formed from nonmetals. The main postulate
of this model is that the arrangement of atoms around a given atom in a molecule is
determined principally by minimizing electron-pair repulsions. Since electrons are
negatively charged, they tend to repel each other so the bonding and nonbonding electron
pairs around a given atom will be positioned as far apart as possible. This theory, in
combination with the Lewis theory, can be used to predict the approximate shape of a
molecule.
10. A polar covalent bond is a bond in which the bonding electrons are unequally shared between
the two atoms. This will occur when the atoms are of different electronegativity. The more
electronegative atom draws the electrons away from the less electronegative one. The atom
of higher electronegativity has a partial negative charge and the other atom has a partial
positive charge.
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11. Water is a unique substance for many reasons, and many of its properties are essential for life
on earth. Water is a liquid at room temperature, whereas hydrides of the other nonmetals are
gases. Ice floats on water, whereas most solids are denser than their liquid phase. Water has
a very high heat of vaporization, which makes it a very effective cooling agent. The specific
heat of water is unusually high, which means that large amounts of heat are absorbed in
heating it, or emitted when it is cooled.
All these properties; each of which alone is unusual, but collectively make for a substance of
very special qualities; can be explained by hydrogen bonding. Hydrogen bonding represents
a form of intermolecular force resulting from the polar nature of the O – H bond. It is also
found to a lesser extent in molecules containing N – H and F – H bonds. In water, it is
particularly strong because of the combination of the two lone electron pairs on each O atom
being involved in a hydrogen bond with an H atom on each of two neighboring H2O
molecules. A network of hydrogen bonds, which makes optimum use of the two lone
electron pairs and the two H atoms of every H2O molecule, extends through the water
binding the molecules together.
12. A polar molecule has a slightly positive charge at one end and a slightly negative charge at
the other end. The separation of charges is due to polar covalent bonds within the molecule.
Polar bonds have two poles – a positive pole and a negative pole – due to a difference in
electronegativities of the elements bonded. A molecule containing polar bonds is polar
unless the symmetry is such that the individual polar bonds cancel each other out. Possession
of polar bonds is not a sufficient condition for a molecule to be polar. The geometry as well
as the polarity of its bonds determines whether a polyatomic molecule is polar or nonpolar.
Absence of polarity in a molecule arises when either all the bonds are nonpolar or the polar
bonds cancel due to symmetry.
13. In order for a change of state to occur, intermolecular forces must be overcome by the
thermal energy of the molecules. As the strength of intermolecular forces rises, so will the
melting and boiling points. Polar molecules tend to have higher melting and boiling points
than non-polar molecules because the intermolecular forces are greater, owing to the
electrostatic interactions between the atoms that have small positive and negative electrical
charges.
14. As a general rule, we can say that like molecules attract like molecules and unlike molecules
repel unlike molecules. Water is a very polar molecule and owes many of its properties to
the hydrogen bonding between molecules. Oil, on the other hand, is a nonpolar molecule.
Therefore, the water molecules attract each other strongly, but reject the oil molecules and,
since oil is less dense than water, oil forms a layer on the surface of the water.
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. TO PROBLEMS:
SOLUTIONS
15.
.. . .. ..
a) C. b) :Ne:
.. c) :Ca d) :F.. .
Ne is chemically stable
16.
.. . ..
a) :Br. b) : S. c) : Kr
.. : d) He:
.. ..
Kr and He are chemically stable
17.
+ .. - .. - 2+ .. -
a) [ K ] [:I..:] b) [:Br
.. :] [ Ca ] [ :Br
.. :]
+ .. 2 - + 2+ .. 2 -
.. :] [ K ]
c) [ K ] [ :S d) [ Mg ] [ :S.. :]
18.
+ .. - + .. 2 - +
.. :]
a) [ Li ] [ :F b) [ Li ] [:O .. :] [ Li ]
2 + .. 2 - .. - 2 + .. -
c) [ Sr ] [ :O.. :] d) [ :
..I :] [ Sr ] [ :I..]:
19.
+ .. : -
a) [ Na ] [: F .. ] Na F
.. - 2+
.. -
b) [ :Cl
.. :] [ Ca ] [ :
Cl.. :] CaCl2
2+
.. 2 -
c) [ Ca ] [ :O.. :] Ca O
.. - 3+ .. -
.. :] [ Al ] [ :Cl
d) [ :Cl .. :] AlCl3
.. -
[ :Cl
.. : ]
20.
+ .. 2 - +
a) [ Na ] [ :O .. :] [ Na ] Na2O
.. 2 - 3 + .. 2 - 3+
.. 2 -
S :] [ Al ] [ :..
b) [:.. S :] [ Al ] [ :S..:] Al2S3
.. - 2+
.. -
c) [ :Cl
.. :] [ Mg ] [ : .. :]
Cl MgCl2
2 + .. 2 -
d) [ Be ] [ :O .. :] BeO
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.. ..
a) : ..I :
..I
.. .. ..
b) :..F N .. F:
F:
:..
.. .. ..
c) :Cl
.. P Cl .. :
.. :
:Cl
.. .. ..
d) :Cl
.. S .. :
.. Cl
22.
.. .. ..
a) : ..
F O
.. .. F:
.. .. ..
b) :..I N ..I :
: ..I :
c) :..S C S:
..
:O :
d) .. ..
:Cl
.. C .. :
Cl
.. ..
d) O
.. C .. :
Cl CHClO
H
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H
..
.. :
d) H C Cl CH3Cl
H
24.
a) The Lewis structure is incorrect because Ca and O together form a ionic bond
not a covalent bond. The correct Lewis structure is as follows:
+ .. 2-
[ Ca ] 2 [ :O
.. :]
b) The Lewis structure is incorrect because there should only be single bonds
between the oxygen and both chlorines, there should not be a double bond
between the first chlorine and the oxygen. The correct Lewis structure is as
follows:
.. .. ..
:Cl
.. O .. Cl :
..
c) The Lewis structure is incorrect because the P does not have a complete octet.
The correct Lewis structure is as follows:
.. .. ..
:..F P ..F:
F:
:..
d) The Lewis structure is incorrect because there are too many total electrons.
Nitrogen only has 5 valence electrons so between the two there should only
be 10 total electrons. The correct Lewis structure is as follows:
:N N :
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26.
a) For I2, there are four electron pairs around each I atom, which implies that the electron
geometry is tetrahedral around the I atom. However, since there is only atom bonded to
the I atom, the molecular geometry is inevitably linear.
b) For NF3, the total number of electron pairs around N is four, three bonding pairs and one
nonbonding pair. The electron geometry is tetrahedral, but since one of these electron
pairs is a lone pair, the resulting molecular geometry is pyramidal.
c) For PCl3, the total number of electron pairs around P is four, three bonding pairs and one
nonbonding pair. The electron geometry is tetrahedral, but since one of these electron
pairs is a lone pair, the resulting molecular geometry is pyramidal.
d) For SCl2, the total number of electron pairs around S is four, two bonding pairs and two
nonbonding pairs. The electron geometry is tetrahedral, but since two of these electron
pairs are lone pairs, the resulting molecular geometry is bent.
27.
a) For OF2, the total number of electron pairs around O is four, two bonding pairs and two
nonbonding pairs. The electron geometry is tetrahedral, but since two of these electron
pairs are lone pairs, the resulting molecular geometry is bent.
b) For NI3, the total number of electron pairs around N is four, three bonding pairs and one
nonbonding pair. The electron geometry is tetrahedral, but since one of these electron
pairs is a lone pair, the resulting molecular geometry is pyramidal.
c) For CS2, the total number of electron “pairs” around C is only two, since each double
bond counts as just one charge group. The electron and molecular geometries are both
linear.
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d) For Cl2CO, the total number of electron “pairs” around C is three, since the C = O double
counts as only one group. Therefore, the electron and molecular geometries are both
trigonal planar.
28.
a) The total number of electron pairs for the Lewis structure of ClNO is three.
Two pairs are bonding and one pair is nonbonding. The electron geometry
is trigonal planar and the molecular geometry is bent.
..
.. N
.
:Cl
.. .O. .
b) The total number of electron pairs for the Lewis structure of C2H6 is seven,
and they are all bonding. The electron geometry and the molecular geometry
are tetrahedral around both carbons.
H
H H
C C
H
H H
c) For the N2F2 molecule, both nitrogen atoms have three electron pairs, two
bonding pairs (one double bond exists between the nitrogen atoms) and one
nonbonding pair. The electron geometry is trigonal planar; however, one of the
electron pairs is a lone pair. The correct molecular geometry is a bent
structure on both nitrogen atoms.
.. ..
.. N N ..
: F.. :
..F
d) For N2H4, both nitrogen atoms have four electron pairs, three bonding pairs
and one nonbonding pair. The electron geometry is tetrahedral but since
one of these electron pairs is a lone pair, the resulting molecular geometry
is pyramidal on both nitrogen atoms. the indicated three dimensional
structure is shown below.
.. ..
H N N H
H H
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a) The total number of electron pairs around each individual carbon is two. Both pairs
are bonding therefore both the electron and the molecular geometry is linear.
H C C H
b) The central atom is carbon in CCl4; it has four electron pairs around it. All four
electron pairs are bonding therefore both the electron and the molecular
geometry is tetrahedral.
Cl
C Cl
Cl
Cl
c) The central atom is P; it has four electron pairs around it. Three of the pairs are
bonding and one is a lone pair. Therefore, the electron geometry is tetrahedral
and the molecular geometry is pyramidal.
..
H P H
H
.
d) The oxygens are the two central atoms, each with four electron pairs around it.
Each oxygen has two bonding pairs and two lone pairs. Therefore, the electron
geometry of each oxygen is tetrahedral and the molecular geometry is bent.
. .. H
O
H ..O. .
The electronic geometry and molecular geometry are tetrahedral. All the bonds are polar, but
since the C-F and C-Cl bonds are different, the polarities do not cancel and the molecular is
polar.
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Both carbons are central atoms and the geometry round each is tetrahedral as shown:
Since the C-F bonds are polar, while the C-H bonds are essentially nonpolar, CF3CFH2 will
be polar.
32. All molecules are linear diatomics, so polarity of the molecule depends only on the polarity
of the bond, which in turn depends on the electronegativity difference between the elements.
a) HBr polar
b) ICl (slightly) polar
c) I2 nonpolar
d) CO polar
33. All the molecules are linear diatomics, so polarity of the molecule depends only on the
polarity of the bond, which in turn depends on the electronegativity difference between the
elements.
a) HF polar
b) O2 nonpolar
c) NO polar
d) H2 nonpolar
34.
a) NH3 polar (pyramidal geometry – dipoles don’t cancel)
b) CCl4 nonpolar (tetrahedral geometry – dipoles cancel)
c) SO2 polar (bent geometry – dipoles don’t cancel)
d) CH4 nonpolar (tetrahedral geometry – dipoles cancel)
e) CH3OH polar (tetrahedral electron geometries at both the carbon and
oxygen make the molecule slightly bent at the oxygen – dipoles don’t cancel)
35.
a) CH3OH polar (tetrahedral electron geometries at both the carbon and oxygen make
the molecule slightly bent at the oxygen: dipoles don’t cancel)
b) CH2Cl2 polar (tetrahedral – dipoles don't cancel)
c) N2H2 polar (geometry around each N atom is pyramidal: dipoles don't cancel)
d) CF4 nonpolar (tetrahedral geometry around C – dipoles cancel)
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POINTS TO PONDER
36. The point here is that the properties of water depend upon the water molecule being polar.
The polarity of a molecule is determined by the arrangements of the polar bonds. If the
individual bond polarities cancel out, the molecule is non-polar; if they don’t cancel, the
molecule is polar. If water was linear rather than bent, the O – H bond polarities would
cancel and water would be non-polar. The world would be a very different place; but we
would not be here to experience it.
37. The macroscopic hexagonal snowflake shape reflects the microscopic, molecular level
hexagonal arrangement of water molecules in an ice crystal. The covalent O-H bonds and
dipolar O∙∙∙H bonds are arranged in hexagons.
38. We can relate the type of bond in the molecule to the energy of the light required to break the
bond. A double bond is stronger than a single bond and so a higher energy light would be
required to break that bond. O2 molecules are not broken apart by the UV light whereas O3
is; and this is because O2 contains a double bond, whereas the bonds in O3 are between single
and double. Therefore, if O3 actually contained double bonds, it too would not be
decomposed by the UV light.
39. If in fact the halogens were stable elements, we would be forced to conclude that the atom
desired to achieve a septet of electrons rather than an octet. The noble gases would then be
expected to be extremely reactive because they would have one electron too many – they
would be the equivalent of the alkali metals. Group VI elements, oxygen, sulfur and so on
would also be very reactive, because they only have one electron deficient.
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Certainly, for the literary enjoyment of succeeding centuries, it
was a good thing that the memorials of this period of turbulence
were ultimately transformed, by the relieved people, into material for
legend and song; yes, even so that Scott could build Abbotsford
without moat or drawbridge. The poetry of the situation is vastly
more enjoyable to-day than was the prose of reality during several
centuries. In like manner, we, who, in our upholstered chairs, with
our feet against the fender of the winter fire-grate, delight in and
admire the red Iroquois in Cooper’s novels, necessarily take a
different view of the whole Indian “problem” than could our
ancestors, so many of whose scalps adorned the walls of the Long
House of the Forest Republic.
In our annals the name of General John Sullivan as one who
avenged the destruction of the Scotch settlements on the
Susquehanna, and opened for our fathers the westward paths of
civilization, must go down to history with the same halo of fame as
that which surrounds Sir William Cranstoun and his little company of
moss troopers of the new sort. Moreover, when the white man is no
longer busy in depositing lead inside the redskin’s cuticle, while the
copper-colored savage ceases to raise the hair of his affectionate
white brother, there is a better common understanding of one
another’s psychology, besides more room for mutual appreciation.
Verily, history fills with its oil the fragrant lamp of literature that
illuminates while it charms.
CHAPTER VII
THE LAY OF THE LAND: DUNFERMLINE
When we look into the name “Dundee,” we find that some derive
it from the Latin “Donum Dei” (the “gift of God”). Evidently those who
designed the town arms accepted this etymology, for above the two
griffins holding a shield is the motto “Dei Donum.” Yet beneath their
intertwined and forked tails is the more cautious motto, perhaps
meant to be regulative,—for “sweet are the uses of adversity,” in
learning as in life,—“prudentia et candore.” While prudence bids us
look forward, candor requires honesty as to the past. So the diligent
scholarship and editorial energy of modern days delete the claims of
local pride, as belated, and declare them “extravagant,” while
asserting that so favorable a situation for defence as has Dundee
antedates even the Roman occupation.
Others, not willing to abandon the legend savoring of divinity, find
the name in the Celtic “Dun Dha,” the “Hill of God.” The probabilities
are, however, that Mars will carry off the honors, and that the modern
form is from the Gaelic name “Dun Tow,” that is, the “fort on the Tay”;
of which the Latin “Tao Dunum” is only a transliteration. All Britain
was spotted with forts or duns, and the same word is in the second
syllable of “London.”
The name “Dundee” first occurs in writing in a deed of gift, dated
about a.d. 1200, by David, the younger brother of William the Lion,
making the place a royal burg. Later it received charters from Robert
the Bruce and the Scottish kings. Charles I finally granted the city its
great charter.
In the war of independence, when the Scots took up arms
against England, Dundee was prominent. William Wallace, educated
here, slew the son of the English constable in 1291, for which deed
he was outlawed. The castle, which stood until some time after the
Commonwealth, but of which there is to-day hardly a trace, was
repeatedly besieged and captured. In Dundee’s coat of arms are two
“wyverns,” griffins, or “dragons,” with wings addorsed and with
barbed tails, the latter “nowed” or knotted together—which things
serve as an allegory. In the local conversation and allusions and in
the modern newspaper cartoons and caricatures, the “wyverns”
stand for municipal affairs and local politics.
Such a well-situated port, on Scotland’s largest river, Tay, must
needs be the perennial prize of contending factions and leaders. But
when, after having assimilated the culture of Rome, the new
struggle, which was inevitable to human progress, the Reformation,
began, and the Scots thought out their own philosophy of the
universe, Dundee was called “the Scottish Geneva,” because so
active in spreading the new doctrines. Here, especially, Scotland’s
champion, George Wishart, student and schoolmaster (1513–46),
one of the earliest reformers, introduced the study of Greek and
preached the Reformation doctrines. Compelled to flee to England,
he went also to Switzerland. In Cambridge, he was a student in
1538. It is not known that he ever “took orders,” any more than did
the apostle Paul. He travelled from town to town, making everywhere
a great impression by his stirring appeals.
Instead of bearing the fiery cross of the clans as of old, Wishart
held up the cross of his Master.
Patriotism and economics, as well as religion, were factors in the
clash of ideas. Cardinal Beaton stood for ecclesiastical dependence
on France, Wishart for independence. Beaton headed soldiers to
make Wishart prisoner. Young John Knox attached himself to the
person of the bold reformer and carried a two-handed sword before
Wishart for his defence. After preaching a powerful sermon at
Haddington, the evangelist was made a prisoner by the Earl of
Bothwell and carried to St. Andrew’s. There, at the age of thirty-
three, by the cardinal’s order, Wishart was burned at the stake in
front of the castle, then the residence of the bishop. While the fire
was kindling, Wishart uttered the prophecy that, within a few days his
judge and murderer would lose his life. After such proceedings in the
name of God, it seems hardly wonderful that the mob, which had
been stirred by Wishart’s preaching, should have destroyed both the
cathedral and the episcopal mansion.
Was Wishart in the plot to assassinate the cardinal, as hostile
critics suggest? Over his ashes a tremendous controversy has
arisen, and this is one of the unsettled questions in Scottish history.
There was another George Wishart, bailie of Dundee, who was in
the plot. Certainly the preacher’s name is great in Scotland’s history.
One of the relics of bygone days, which the Dundeeans keep in
repair, is a section of the old battlemented city wall crossing one of
the important streets. This for a time was the pulpit of the great
reformer. With mine host of the Temperance Hotel, Bailie Mather,
who took me, as other antiquarians, poets, and scholars did also,
through the old alleys and streets, where the vestiges of historic
architecture still remain from the past, I mounted this old citadel of
freedom.
On the whole, the Reformation in Dundee was peacefully carried
out, but in 1645, during the Civil War, the city was sacked and most
of its houses went down in war fires. In 1651, General Monk, sent by
Cromwell, captured Dundee, and probably one sixth of the garrison
were put to the sword. Sixty vessels were loaded with plunder to be
sent away, but “the sailors being apparently as drunk as the soldiery”
the vessels were lost within sight of the city. “Ill got, soon lost,” said
Monk’s chaplain. Governor Lumsden, in heroic defence, made his
last stand in the old tower, which still remains scarred and pitted with
bullet marks.
Dundee rose to wealth during our Civil War, when jute took the
place of cotton. Being a place of commerce rather than of art,
literature, or romance, and touching the national history only at long
intervals, few tourists see or stay long in “Jute-opolis.” Nevertheless,
from many visits and long dwelling in the city and suburbs, Dundee
is a place dearly loved by us three; for here, in health and in
sickness, in the homes of the hospitable people and as leader of the
worship of thousands, in the great Ward Chapel, where he often
faced over a thousand interested hearers, the writer learned to know
the mind of the Scottish people more intimately than in any other city.
Nor could he, in any other better way, know the heart of Scotland,
except possibly in some of those exalted moments, when surveying
unique scenery, it seemed as if he were in the very penetralia of the
land’s beauty; or, when delving in books, he saw unroll clearly the
long panorama of her inspiring history.
Among the treasures, visible in the muniment room of the Town
House, are original despatches from Edward I and Edward II; the
original charter, dated 1327, and given the city by Robert the Bruce;
a Papal order from Leo X, and a letter from Mary Queen of Scots,
concerning extramural burials. Then the “yardis, glk sumtyme was
occupyit by ye Gray Cordelier Freres” (Franciscan Friars, who wore
the gray habit and girdle of St. Francis of Assisi) as an orchard, were
granted to the town as a burying-place by Queen Mary in 1564. The
Nine Crafts having wisely decided not to meet in taverns and
alehouses, made this former place of fruit their meeting-place; hence
the name “Howff,” or haunt. My rhyming friend Lee, in his verses on
the “Waukrife Wyverns” (wakeful griffins), has written the feelings
and experiences of his American friend, who often wandered and
mused among the graven stones, as well as his own:—
* * * * *
Vast meeting-place whaur all are mute,
For dust hath ended the dispute;
These yards are fat wi’ ither fruit
Than when the friars
Grew apples red for their wine-presses—
And stole frae ruddier dames caresses,
Else men are liars.”