2. Please list the following salts in order of increasing lattice energy and justify your answer: LiF, CaO, RbCI, AIN, CsI.

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2. Please list the following salts in order of increasing lattice energy and justify your answer: LiF,
CaO, RbCI, AIN, CSI.
Transcribed Image Text:2. Please list the following salts in order of increasing lattice energy and justify your answer: LiF, CaO, RbCI, AIN, CSI.
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Lattice energy is the energy required to separate one mole of an ionic solid into its gaseous ions. The lattice energy of an ionic solid depends on the size and charge of the ions, as well as the arrangement of the ions in the crystal lattice. Larger ions and ions with higher charges have stronger attractions and therefore higher lattice energies. Based on this, we can order the given salts in increasing lattice energy as follows:

LiF < RbCl < CsI < CaO < AlN

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