Chapter 2 Outline
Matter and Minerals
1. Minerals: Building Blocks of Rock
Mineralogy literally means the study of minerals. Humans use minerals and rocks in many ways, from jewelry, weapons, health and wellbeing. Mining of gold, silver and copper dates back to 3700 B.C. Mining means taking something out of the ground.
A. Defining a Mineral
A mineral is an organic solid that has a crystal structure and a chemical composition that is definite. There are several ways that you can classify minerals. The characteristics include: naturally occurring, generally inorganic, solid substance, orderly crystalline structure, or definite chemical composition that varies.
B. What is a Rock
Rocks are different from minerals and are defined as
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Ionic compounds, molecules, and metallic substances are some examples of bonded atoms. The electrical charge that holds the atoms together will determine the stability of a compound. Compounds are more stable than free atoms.
A. The Octet Rule and Chemical Bonds
Atoms have a tendency to either lose, gain, or share electrons until the atoms is surrounded by eight valence electrons. For an atom to have a full valence shell of electrons a chemical bond will share or transfer electrons in order for this to happen. The three types of transfer between electrons and elements are ionic, covalent, or metallic.
B. Ionic Bonds: Electrons Transferred
An ion is an atom that is both has a positive and negative charge. The attraction of oppositely charged ions to one another is an ionic bond. Table salt is a very good example of an ionic bond.
C. Covalent Bonds: Electron Sharing
A covalent bond is the sharing of paired electrons between atoms. For example, if two hydrogen atoms meet their electron configuration changes. Then both of the electrons will occupy the space between the atoms.
D. Metallic Bonds: Electrons Free to Move
When metal atoms pack together in a specific and orderly fashion metals such as gold, silver, and copper are produced. Each metallic atom gave up its valence electron to form a common pool of electrons in the entire structure. The freedom of valence electrons to
5. The two primary types of chemical bonding is ionic and covalent. Ionic bonding is when atoms give
If all atoms want to have 8 electrons on their outer shell, what should happen between Ca and S for each atom to reach that state of having 8 valence
Some rock’s in the Earth’s interior that are solid, are so hot that, if the pressure on these were released, or they are convected into a lower pressure zone, they could begin to melt
1. Define Mineral: Any naturally occurring inorganic solid that possesses an orderly crystalline structure and can be represented by a chemical formula.
Mineralogy- An important part of Geology is the study of Minerals, their physical properties, structure, and chemistry. It helps us understand how they react with one another depending on the circumstances including weathering, fire, how deep, with living or non-living organisms. Minerology is broad and interesting field of study.
a. atoms lose electrons if they have just one or two electrons in their valence shells; they gain electrons if they need just one or two electrons to complete the valence shell as in K+CL- __Ionic bonds_
b) Observe and record data in the data table on its state of matter, appearance, and texture and whether it has a crystalline structure.
35. Polyatomic ions (Table E) are groups of atoms, covalently bonded together, with an overall charge.
A covalent bond is a bond that occurs when atoms in a molecule share a pair of electrons. For example, “the atoms in sugar do not form ions; instead, they are held together because of shared electrons.”
-Covalent bond- Electrons are shared between two atoms, neither atom completely gains or loses electrons. Between two nonmetals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralization_(chemistry) An acid is molecule or ion capable of donating a hydron, or capable of forming a covalent bond with and electronic pair.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid A base in chemistry, is a substance that can accept hydrogen ions.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base A covalent bond can also be known as a molecule bond, is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covalent_bond These electron pairs can also be known as shared pairs or bonding pairs. Electron pairs consist of two electrons that occupy the same orbital but they have opposite spins. Hydrogen ions is a common name for the aqueous cation H 30+, the type of oxonium ion made by protonation of water. It's the positive ion present an Arrhenius acid is dissolved in
Which are most effective at shielding, despite all electrons in an atom shielding one another to some extent.
Before the atoms are bonded, the single, non-bonded pairs of electrons are called lone pairs of electrons. When the atoms combine by means of covalent bonding they form molecules. Simple covalent compounds consist of many small molecules. The covalent bonds within the molecules are strong but the bondings between them to form the compounds are relatively weak, the force that occurs between them is called the intermolecular force.
The outer shell of electrons that orbit the nucleus of an atom is called the valance shell. This is what makes a copper atom conduct. For a copper atom the number of electrons is one. When a charge of electricity is placed in the end of a wire the electrons move into the wire. Since there is only one electron in the valance shell of a copper atom it can be easily dislodged with a small amount of energy causing it to jump to the next atom. This will then cause the valance electron of that atom to jump to the next atom and so forth. This movement happens very fast making it possible for a large number of electrons to move through the wire. An example of a conductive atom is shown figure 1.