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This chapter builds an understanding of atomic structure in four steps. First, we review the experiments that led to our current nuclear model of the atom and see how spectroscopy reveals information about the arrangement of electrons around the nucleus. Then we describe the experiments that led to the replacement of classical mechanics by quantum mechanics, introduce some of its central features, and illustrate them by considering a very simple system. Next, we apply those ideas to the simplest atom of all, the hydrogen atom. Finally, we extend these concepts to the atoms of all the elements of the periodic table and see the origin of the periodicity of the elements. 

The next step in our journey takes us from hydrogen and its single electron to the atoms of all the other elements in the periodic table. A neutral atom other than a hydrogen atom has more than one electron and is known as a many-electron atom. In the next three sections, we build on what we have learned about the hydrogen atom to see how the presence of more than one electron affects the energies of... 

To write the configuration of any other element, we first consult the periodic table to find its location relative to the noble gases. Then we specify the noble gas configuration and build the remaining portion of the configuration according to the aufbau principle. Example applies this procedure to indium. 

From the periodic table, we see that sulfur has 16 electrons and is in the p block. Group 16. To build the ground-state configuration, apply the normal filling rales and then apply Hund s rule if needed. 

Chemistry would not be done justice if only the past and the status quo were discussed. Today, new heavy elements are discovered in nuclear accelerators as a result of their decomposition traces and are of interest in nuclear physics. The Periodic Table provides building blocks for new areas of chemistry. The possibilities for combining elements into defined compounds is far from exhausted, even though about 30 million have been described to date. Besides the question as to how molecules react with each other, a new phenomenon is becoming increasingly important ... 

Chemistry is the study of matter and energy and the interaction between them. In this chapter, we learn about the elements, which are the building blocks of all types of matter in the universe, the measurement of matter (and energy) as mass, the properties by which the types of matter can be identified, and a basic classification of matter. The symbols used to represent the elements are also presented, and an arrangement of the elements into classes having similar properties, called a periodic table, is introduced. The periodic table is invaluable to the chemist for many types of classification and understanding. 

It does not seem unlikely that if it is possible to "degrade" elements, it may be possible to build them up. It has been suggested that it might be possible to obtain, in this way, gold fi om silver, since these two elements occur in the same column in the Periodic Table but the suggestion still awaits experimental confirmation. The question arises. 

So far, you have built up atoms of the first 36 elements of the periodic table. There are more than 80 elements still remaining. You do not, however, have to build up atoms of these elements to write their electron configurations. You can do it simply by consulting the periodic table ... 

Chemists of the early twentieth century tried to find the existence of element 85, which was given the name eka-iodine by Mendeleev in order to fill the space for the missing element in the periodic table. Astatine is the rarest of all elements on Earth and is found in only trace amounts. Less than one ounce of natural astatine exists on the Earth at any one time. There would be no astatine on Earth if it were not for the small amounts that are replenished by the radioactive decay process of uranium ore. Astatine produced by this uranium radioactive decay process soon decays, so there is no long-term build up of astatine on Earth. The isotopes of astatine have very short half-lives, and less than a gram has ever been produced for laboratory study. 

If there were a flag that represented the science of chemistry, it would be the periodic table. The periodic table is a concise organizational chart of the elements. The periodic table not only summarizes important facts about the elements, but it also incorporates a theoretical framework for understanding the relationships between elements. The modern periodic table attests to human s search for order and patterns in nature. As such, the periodic table is a dynamic blueprint for the basic building blocks of our universe. This chapter examines the development of the modern periodic table and presents information on how the modem periodic table is organized. 

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis making use of cobalt-based catalysts is a hotly persued scientific topic in the catalysis community since it offers an interesting and economically viable route for the conversion of e.g. natural gas to sulphur-free diesel fuels. As a result, major oil companies have recently announced to implement this technology and major investments are under way to build large Fischer-Tropsch plants based on cobalt-based catalysts in e.g. Qatar. Promoters have shown to be crucial to alter the catalytic properties of these catalyst systems in a positive way. For this reason, almost every chemical element of the periodic table has been evaluated in the open literature for its potential beneficial effects on the activity, selectivity and stability of supported cobalt nanoparticles. 

Yet perhaps it is not as surprising as all that. True, I could not possibly have memorized the quirks and foibles of all ninety-two elements up to uranium in the Periodic Table, chemistry s group portrait of the building blocks of matter. 

Figure 8. Old Forest Academy building in Eberswalde, Germany, where Julius Lothar Meyer drafted his first comprehensive periodic table. (Photo Copyright J.

The latter part of the citation covers work Soddy carried out while at the University of Glasgow. While there, he developed the displacement law of radioactive transformation, whereby an emitter of a radiation is displaced two places to the left in the periodic table (i.e., it is transformed into the element two to the right) and an emitter of p radiation is displaced one to the right. He also introduced the term isotope, a word suggested to him in the building shown in Figure 12. 

A substance can be classified chemically in many ways. One of the simplest ways to classify a substance is as an element or a compound. An element is a pure substance that cannot be changed into a simpler substance by chemical means. Elements are the building blocks of nature all matter is composed of elements. The periodic table is a concise map that organizes chemical elements into columns (groups) and rows (periods) based on their chemical properties. Currently, there are 118 known chemical elements, with whole numbers 1 to 118. These numbers are referred to as the element s atomic number and give the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of the element. For example, carbon s atomic number is 6 and each carbon atom has 6 protons in its nucleus. The first 92 elements occur naturally, and those above atomic number 92 are synthesized through nuclear reactions using particle accelerators. Element 118 was just confirmed in the fall of 2006, and by now, more elements may have been produced. 

Liq hydrogen represents the ultimate attainable in a fuel. However, its low density low bp make its use on a large scale difficult. Study of the periodic table of the elements indicated that a better HEF could be prepd only if hydrogen, beryllium or boron were used as "building blocks. Beryllium was eliminated,according to MartinfRef 35),because of its limited availability, extreme toxicity of its compds and because no liq complexes of Be are known. Consequently boron its hydrides were selected as the materials from which the synthesis of a better HEF would be attempted... 

FIGURE 1.34 The names of the blocks of the periodic table are based on the last subshell being occupied in an atom of an element according to the building-up principle. The numbers of electrons that each type of orbital can accommodate are shown by the numbers across the bottom of the table. The colors of the blocks match the colors we are using for the corresponding orbitals. 

The organization of the periodic table (Section B) can be explained now that we know about electron configurations (Box 1.2). The table is divided into s, p, d, and f blocks, named for the last subshell that is occupied according to the building-up principle (Fig. 1.34). Two elements are exceptions. Strictly, helium belongs in the s block, but it is shown in the p... 

The blocks of the periodic table are named for the last orbital to be occupied according to the building-up principle. The periods are numbered according to the principal quantum number of the valence shell. 

The 112 known elements—there may be more by the time you read this—combine to form millions of compounds. That is far more than we could study individually. Moreover just learning a string of isolated facts would not build the insight we need to devise new compounds. It is far more useful to study a select group of representative elements and their compounds. In this and the next two chapters, we use the periodic table as our guide in this highly selective journey. The topics of these chapters are commonly called descriptive chemistry—the description of the preparation, properties, and applications of elements and their compounds. 

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