Characteristics of Ions and Ionic Compounds

The analysis of the VT has shown that the bottleneck radius for Na(l)-Na(3) transport along the principal axis is 2.08 A, and that for the oblique (211) path is 2.22 A Our analysis of a great number of sodium-containing oxide compounds [84] has shovm that these values are characteristic of poor and good Na+ ion conductors, respectively. Thus, Na(l)-Na(3) sites cannot provide ahigh mobility, and only Na(4)-Na (6) sites are responsible for ionic conduction. The most interesting result, however, is that there are no bottlenecks at all between the two Na(5) sites of the different (211)... 

The values of y are nearly independent of the kind of ions in the compound so long as the compounds are of the same valence type. For example, KCl and NaBr have nearly the same activity coefficients at the same concentration, as do K2SO4 and Ca(N03)2. In Section 16.7 we shall see that the theory of Deby e and Huckel predicts that in a sufficiently dilute solution the mean ionic activity coefficient should depend only on the charges on the ions and their concentration, but not on any other individual characteristics of the ions. 

In Chapter 9, you learned that a chemical reaction can usually be classified as one of five types—synthesis, decomposition, combustion, singlereplacement, or double-replacement. A defining characteristic of combustion and single-replacement reactions is that they always involve the transfer of electrons from one atom to another, as do many synthesis and decomposition reactions. For example, in the synthesis reaction in which sodium (Na) and chlorine (CI2) react to form the ionic compound sodium chloride (NaCl), an electron from each of two sodium atoms is transferred to the CI2 molecule to form two Cl ions. 

Reference has been made already to the existence of a set of inner transition elements, following lanthanum, in which the quantum level being filled is neither the outer quantum level nor the penultimate level, but the next inner. These elements, together with yttrium (a transition metal), were called the rare earths , since they occurred in uncommon mixtures of what were believed to be earths or oxides. With the recognition of their special structure, the elements from lanthanum to lutetium were re-named the lanthanons or lanthanides. They resemble one another very closely, so much so that their separation presented a major problem, since all their compounds are very much alike. They exhibit oxidation state -i-3 and show in this state predominantly ionic characteristics—the ions. 

Compounds are combinations of elements in which the atoms of the different elements are present in a characteristic, constant ratio. A compound is classified as molecular if it consists of molecules and as ionic if it consists of ions. 

The nature of a binary hydride is related to the characteristics of the element bonded to hydrogen (Fig. 14.8). Strongly electropositive metallic elements form ionic compounds with hydrogen in which the latter is present as a hydride ion, H. These ionic compounds are called saline hydrides (or saltlike hydrides). They are formed by all members of the s block, with the exception of beryllium, and are made by heating the metal in hydrogen ... 

When a substance made up of ions is dissolved in water, the dissolved ions behave independently. That is, they undergo their own characteristic reactions regardless of what other ions may be present. For example, barium ions in solution, Ba2, always react with sulfate ions in solution, S04 , to form an insoluble ionic compound, BaS04(s), no matter what other ions are present in the barium solution. If a solution of barium chloride, BaCK, and a solution of sodium sulfate, Na S04, arc mixed, a white solid, barium sulfate, is produced. The solid can be separated from the solution by filtration, and the resulting solution contains sodium chloride, just as it would if solid NaCl were added to water. In other words, when the two solutions are mixed, the following reaction occurs ... 

The word bonding applies to any situation in which two or more atoms are held together in such close proximity that they form a characteristic species which has distinct properties and which can be represented by a chemical formula. In compounds consisting of ions, bonding results from the attractions between the oppositely charged ions. In such compounds in the solid state, each ion is surrounded on all sides by ions of the opposite charge. (For example, see Fig. 5-1.) In a solid ionic compound, it is incorrect to speak of a bond between specific pairs of ions. 

Equidistant or clustered signals, characteristic of some anionic, nonionic or cationic surfactants (cf. Fig. 2.5.1(a) and (b). So the presence of non-ionic surfactants of alkylpolyglycolether (alcohol ethoxylate) type (AE) (structural formula C H2 i i-0-(CH2-CH2-0)x-H) could be confirmed in the formulation (Fig. 2.5.1(a)) applying APCI-FIA-MS in positive mode. AE compounds with high probability could also be assumed in the heavily loaded environmental sample because of the patterns of A m/z 44 equally spaced ammonium adduct ions ([M + NH4]+) shown in its FIA-MS spectrum in Fig. 2.5.1(b). 

While fast atom bombardment (FAB) [66] and TSI [25] built up the basis for a substance-specific analysis of the low-volatile surfactants within the late 1980s and early 1990s, these techniques nowadays have been replaced successfully by the API methods [22], ESI and APCI, and matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation (MALDI). In the analyses of anionic surfactants, the negative ionisation mode can be applied in FIA-MS and LC-MS providing a more selective determination for these types of compounds than other analytical approaches. Application of positive ionisation to anionics of ethoxylate type compounds led to the abstraction of the anionic moiety in the molecule while the alkyl or alkylaryl ethoxylate moiety is ionised in the form of AE or APEO ions. Identification of most anionic surfactants by MS-MS was observed to be more complicated than the identification of non-ionic surfactants. Product ion spectra often suffer from a reduced number of negative product ions and, in addition, product ions that are observed are less characteristic than positively generated product ions of non-ionics. The most important obstacle in the identification and quantification of surfactants and their metabolites, however, is the lack of commercially available standards. The problems with identification will be aggravated by an absence of universally applicable product ion libraries. 

Their unique characteristics are a result of their outer shells having seven electrons, and thus requiring only one electron to become complete. This -1 oxidation state makes them extremely reactive with both metals and some nonmetal elements that form negative ions, and they may form either ionic or covalent bonds. They can also form compounds with each other these binary compounds of the halogens are called halides. ... 

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