Periodic Trends

A topic within Inorganic Chemistry, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Chemistry.

Reading on Periodic Trends

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Talk2019

Investigating the Periodic Table with Experiments

Peter Wothers (The Royal Institution)

Demonstrates experimentally that the periodic table's groups predict reactivity, so the arrangement is a claim about electronic structure rather than a filing convenience.

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Chemistry · Inorganic Chemistry

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Paper1932

The Nature of the Chemical Bond. IV. The Energy of Single Bonds and the Relative Electronegativity of Atoms

Linus Pauling

Derives a numerical electronegativity scale from bond dissociation energies, converting a qualitative periodic trend into values that predict bond polarity.

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Chemistry · Inorganic Chemistry

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Reading on Periodic Trends

Investigating the Periodic Table with Experiments

The Nature of the Chemical Bond. IV. The Energy of Single Bonds and the Relative Electronegativity of Atoms

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