FLUORINE 

AN ELEMENT ON THE PERIODIC TABLE 

 • Atoms have protons, neutrons and electrons
Fluorine has 9 protons, 10 neutrons and 9 electrons
It has protons and neutrons in the nucleus and electrons
in 'shells' around the nucleus
THE BASIC
When an atom loses an electron it becomes a positive ion,
STRUCTURE and when it gains one it becomes a negative ion. This
causes the atom to bond to anything near it. With atoms
like fluorine (which is the most electronegative of the
halogens) with high ionization energy they tend to gain
electrons easily because of the lack of shielding.  
ISOTOPES & RADIO
ISOTOPES 
• Isotopes of the same element are atoms with
the same amount of protons, but different
number of neutrons and radioisotopes are
radioactive isotopes.
• Fluorine's isotopes range from F14 to F31.
However, all its isotopes are artificially
produced and not naturally occurring,
therefore, the only stable from of Fluorine is
Fluorine-19(/F-18.988). 
• There is also a radioisotope which is
Fluorine-18.
THE • How is fluorine N=19 and Z=9

CALCULATIO • Emission spectrometry is how you find the RAM or Ar

which is N=19
N OF • First you heat the element which excites electrons and
RELATIVE causes them to move to different energy levels and emit
photons to move back down. 
ATOMIC • When it stops emitting photons it means that it has become
MASS USING inert (full outer shell) because the electron has left the final

EXPERIMENT shell which is how you tell that there are two shells in
fluorine
AL DATA • Which would make it an ion 
ENERGY LEVELS
AND SUB
ENERGY LEVELS
n= principle quantum number, shell How do we know that there are
number:1s2 2s2 2p5  different energy levels?

We know that there are distinct

energy levels because of the spectral
lines in emission spectroscopy. We
We know that there are different
record the wavelength of the
energy levels through mass
photons emitted which come out as
spectrometry. This is when you heat
lines on a piece of paper. Spectral
the element in question to give its
lines and successive ionisation
electrons more energy. This in turn
(electron jumping out of the shell
causes the electron to jump up
making fluorine a full shell of 8)
energy levels and emit a photon of a
shows that there are distinct energy
certain colour / wavelength 
levels as there are no more energy
shells to move up showing a limit to
the energy shells. 
 FULL
ELECTRON • The full electron configuration is
CONFIGUR not just, 2.8.1
ATION  • F= 9 electrons
• 1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s1
E=HV=HC/T

H=6.6207004x10^-34 m kg/s
V= frequency of the quantum packets. 
C= speed of light
T=time
This is used to find the Ionization energy of elements 
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ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION 
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QUESTIONS 

• What is electronic configuration of magnesium? 

• Mg=12
• 3s2
• 1s22s22p63s2
What
QUESTIONS 

• What is electronic configuration of magnesium? 

• Mg=12
• 1s2,2s2,2p6,3s2