Topic:Inorganic chemistry
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- Periodicity in atomic properties
- The periodic table ordered by atomic number
- Atomic mass: number of isotopes when Z = odd or even
- "Atomic radius" increases with Z
- Ionization energy increases from left to right, falls on descending a group
- Principal quantum number and the distribution of electrons
- Azimuthal quantum number and electron configuration
- Aufbau principle and Kleshkovsky’s Rule
- Shielding and effective nuclear charge
- Lanthanide contraction and d-block contraction
- Acids and bases
- Brönsted definition: acids as proton donors
- Autoionisation of water
- pH as a measure of proton concentration
- Dissociation equilibria: weak and strong acids
- Bases
- Neutralization reactions: strong acid-strong base, weak acid-strong base, weak acid-weak base
- Buffer solutions
- Indicators
- Some unusual acids: boric, carbonic, sulfurous
- Limits of the Brönsted definition: concentrated solutions, Lewis acids
- Solid-state structures
- How to arrange identical spheres: close-packed structures of metals
- Coordinace and filling efficiency. Definition of metallic radius
- Non close-packed structures: body-centered cubic and simple cubic
- Tetrahedral and octahedral holes
- Ionic stuctures as cubic anion lattices: CsCl, NaCl, zinc blende, fluorite
- Covalent giant lattices: diamond and graphite
- Formal description of structures: unit cell parameters
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