Periodic Table Trends: Ionization Energy

What an ion is. Using the periodic table to understand how difficult it is to ionize an atom.

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Education

Tags:

• ion
• ionization
• energy
• chemistry

[killer43213]

CAT-ions are PAWS-itive



[flyboimomo121]

I've always remembered ions because if you break down the word "anion"

a - a

n- negative

ion- ion

And cation would be the positive one

[battousai12345]

@killer43213

Yes, as we've all learned, you have to go a little nuts to have a good study session. My anatomy professor once told the class a short hand way of remembering biological classifications of kingdom to species with:

"Kansas People Come Over For Good S-x"

[sovelliss66]

"Cat" and "An" of the two terms come from the terms "Cathode" and "Anode". The positive and negative receptors in an electrical circuit. And now I feel nerdy enough for today I'm out.

[MaMovieKer]

what about positron?

can you enlighten me on those?

[jruff420]

I learned more in 12 minutes here then i did in a hour of chemistry, thank you so much.

[7RaPeKiNg7]

sounds like brian from family guy XD

[azswaggastupid]

the 1:1 student ratio is nice lol

[MediumNothinFull]

... you ask me if you're right alot, i dont know, i hope you're right im taking notes on all this

[MediumNothinFull]

AAAAHHHHHH THANK YOU!!!

[stuffandstuff789]

For anyone doing OCR F321 AS Chem: the given definition of first ionisation energy is "The energy required to remove one electron from each atom in one mole of gaseous atoms to form one mole of gaseous 1+ ions."

[anh1798]

really helpful, thanks!