Oppositely charged

Also used to describe the oppositely charged ion balancing charge, e.g. chloride is the counter-ion to Na in sodium chloride. 

Debye-Hiickel theory The activity coefficient of an electrolyte depends markedly upon concentration. Jn dilute solutions, due to the Coulombic forces of attraction and repulsion, the ions tend to surround themselves with an atmosphere of oppositely charged ions. Debye and Hiickel showed that it was possible to explain the abnormal activity coefficients at least for very dilute solutions of electrolytes. 

The electrovalent bond is formed by electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions. Thus Na, with one outer electron, loses this electron to achieve the noble gas Ne structure, while Cl with seven outer electrons, gains one electron to achieve the Ar structure. 

The Donnan effect acts to exclude like-charged substrate ions from a charged surface region, and this exclusion, as well as the concentration of oppositely charged ions, can be expressed in terms of a Donnan potential pD. Thus for a film of positively charged surfactant ions S one can write... 

Weak electrolytes in which dimerization (as opposed to ion pairing) is the result of chemical bonding between oppositely charged ions have been studied using a sticky electrolyte model (SEM). In this model, a delta fiinction interaction is introduced in the Mayer/-fiinction for the oppositely charged ions at a distance L = a, where a is the hard sphere diameter. The delta fiinction mimics bonding and tire Mayer /-function... 

When hydrochloric acid is cautiously added to an aqueous solution containing both sodium nitrite and the sodium salt of sulphanilic acid, NaOsSCgH NH, the amino group of the latter undergoes normal diazotisation, giving the diazonium chloride (A). The latter, however, ionises in solution, giving sodium and chloride ions and the internal salt (B), which possesses two opposite charges and is therefore neutral this internal salt is stable under... 

Atoms combine with one another to give compounds having properties different from the atoms they contain The attractive force between atoms m a compound is a chemical bond One type of chemical bond called an ionic bond, is the force of attraction between oppositely charged species (ions) (Figure 1 4) Ions that are positively charged are referred to as cations, those that are negatively charged are anions... 

FIGURE 1 4 An ionic bond IS the force of attrac tion between oppositely charged ions Each Na ion (yellow) in the crystal lattice of solid NaCI IS involved in ionic bonding to each of six surrounding Cl ions (green) and vice versa... 

Were we to simply add the ionization energy of sodium (496 kJ/mol) and the electron affin ity of chlorine (—349 kJ/mol) we would conclude that the overall process is endothermic with AH° = +147 kJ/mol The energy liberated by adding an electron to chlorine is msuf ficient to override the energy required to remove an electron from sodium This analysis however fails to consider the force of attraction between the oppositely charged ions Na" and Cl which exceeds 500 kJ/mol and is more than sufficient to make the overall process exothermic Attractive forces between oppositely charged particles are termed electrostatic, or coulombic, attractions and are what we mean by an ionic bond between two atoms... 

All of the material in this text and most of chemistry generally can be understood on the basis of what physicists call the electromagnetic force Its major principle is that opposite charges attract and like charges repel As you learn organic chemistry a good way to start to connect structure to properties such as chemical reactivity is to find the positive part of one molecule and the neg ative part of another Most of the time these will be the reactive sites... 

When two or more structures satisfy the octet rule the most stable one is the one with the smallest separation of oppositely charged atoms... 

All of the forces in chemistry except for nuclear chemistry are electrical Opposite charges attract like charges repel This simple fact can take you a long way... 

Relatively simple notions of attractive forces between opposite charges are suffi cient to account for many of the properties of chemical substances You will find it help ful to keep the polarity of carbon-oxygen and carbon-halogen bonds m mind as we develop the properties of alcohols and alkyl halides m later sections... 

Solvent Effects on the Rate of Substitution by the S l Mechanism Table 8 6 lists the relative rate of solvolysis of tert butyl chloride m several media m order of increasing dielectric constant (e) Dielectric constant is a measure of the ability of a material m this case the solvent to moderate the force of attraction between oppositely charged par tides compared with that of a standard The standard dielectric is a vacuum which is assigned a value e of exactly 1 The higher the dielectric constant e the better the medium is able to support separated positively and negatively charged species 8olvents... 

Transition state is more polar than starting state polar solvent can cluster about transition state so as to reduce electrostatic energy associated with separation of opposite charges... 

Dipole moment (Section 1 5) Product of the attractive force between two opposite charges and the distance between them Dipole moment has the symbol p- and is measured in Debye units (D)... 

Electrostatic attraction (Section 1 2) Force of attraction be tween oppositely charged particles Electrostatic potential (Section 1 10) The energy of interac tion between a point positive charge and the charge field of a molecule... 

Ionic bond (Section 1 2) Chemical bond between oppositely charged particles that results from the electrostatic attrac tion between them... 

If two oppositely charged plates exist in a vacuum, there is a certain force of attraction between them, as stated by Coulomb s law ... 

Ion-exchange methods are based essentially on a reversible exchange of ions between an external liquid phase and an ionic solid phase. The solid phase consists of a polymeric matrix, insoluble, but permeable, which contains fixed charge groups and mobile counter ions of opposite charge. These counter ions can be exchanged for other ions in the external liquid phase. Enrichment of one or several of the components is obtained if selective exchange forces are operative. The method is limited to substances at least partially in ionized form. 

Precipitate particles grow in size because of the electrostatic attraction between charged ions on the surface of the precipitate and oppositely charged ions in solution. Ions common to the precipitate are chemically adsorbed, extending the crystal lattice. Other ions may be physically adsorbed and, unless displaced, are incorporated into the crystal lattice as a coprecipitated impurity. Physically adsorbed ions are less strongly attracted to the surface and can be displaced by chemically adsorbed ions. 

For this purpose we compare a parallel plate capacitor under vacuum and one containing a dielectric, as shown in Figs. 10.4a and b, respectively. The plates of the capacitor carry equal but opposite charges Q which can be described as aA, where o is the surface charge density and A is the area of the plates. In this case, the field between the plates is given by... 

An electric dipole consists of two equal and opposite charges separated by a distance. AH molecules contain atoms composed of positively charged nuclei and negatively charged electrons. When a molecule is placed in an electric field between two charged plates, the field attracts the positive nuclei toward the negative plate and the electrons toward the positive plate. This electrical distortion, or polarization of the molecule, creates an electric dipole. When the field is removed, the distortion disappears, and the molecule reverts to its original condition. This electrical distortion of the molecule is caHed induced polarization the dipole formed is an induced dipole. 

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