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2. List three differences in the physical properties between metals and nonmetals.
Metals are shiny, malleable and good conductors whereas nonmetals are dull,
brittle an insulators.
3. An element has an electron configuration of [Kr]5s 24d7. Determine whether this element
is a metal or a nonmetal without looking at a periodic table. How can this be determined?
It is a metal because it it only has two valence (outer level) electrons. Metals
tend to have 3 or less valence electrons.
4. How do metals and nonmetals differ in terms of how they lose/gain electrons.
Metals tend to lose electrons and nonmetals tend to gain electrons.
5. Why are most of the elements on the left and in the middle of the periodic table metals?
Because most of them have 3 or less valence electrons.
6. Halogens tend to gain electrons when they react making them nonmetals. How many
electrons do the halogens tend to gain? Why?
Halogens tend to gain one electron so that they can get a full outer level and be
stable.
7. What is a semiconductor?
A substance that conducts electricity, but poorly.
9. An element has the electron configuration [Ar]4s 23d104p4. Using the electron
configuration and a periodic table answer the following questions.
(a) What is the element? Selenium