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The single "most likely" element that would form an ionic compound with fluorine is cesium, or possibly francium if enough of it could be collected. This is because cesium, among stable elements, has the lowest electronegativity and fluorine has the highest electronegativity. However, any alkali or alkaline earth metal element in fact readily forms an ionic compound with fluorine, as do many other metals.
No
Cesium is an element that forms a cation.
Cesium doesn't have a smell you need special equipment to detect Cesium.
cesium
The single "most likely" element that would form an ionic compound with fluorine is cesium, or possibly francium if enough of it could be collected. This is because cesium, among stable elements, has the lowest electronegativity and fluorine has the highest electronegativity. However, any alkali or alkaline earth metal element in fact readily forms an ionic compound with fluorine, as do many other metals.
Generally speaking, non-metals have high electronegativity and metals have low ones. Fluorine (F) has the highest electronegativity of any element, and cesium (Cs) has the lowest.
No. the element francium will have the lowest electronegativity. However it is radioactive and for practical purpose, cesium is considered to be the element with lowest electronegativity.
Electronegativity increases as you go from the bottom left corner of the periodic table to the upper right corner. The element with the lowest electronegativity is thus francium (Fr). However, this element is radioactive, and so generally the least electronegative element that you can really use is cesium (Cs). Generally speaking, this whole first column (the alkali metals) all have very low electronegativities, but the lower down the column, the lower the electronegativity.(Francium may not be the least electronegative element due to the relativistic effects, which is evident from its ionization energy (> Cs) and standard electrode potential (
cesium and fluorine
Flourine
cerium selenium zinc sulfur thorium calcium sodium chlorine europium antimony fluorine rubidium cesium chromium manganese cobalt scandium
The formula name for the element CsF is Caesium fluoride.
If it's an element find the difference in the electronegativities. If the difference is between 0 and 0.3, then it's nonpolar-covalent. If the difference is between 0.3 and 1.7, then it's polar-covalent. If the difference is between 1.7 and 3.3, then it's ionic. For example, fluorine and cesium. F has an electronegativity of 4.0, and Cs has an electronegativity of 0.7. 4.0-0.7=3.3, so the cesium-fluorine bonding would be ionic.
The lower left (Cesium) ones and the upper right's(Fluorine).
No
fluorine is most electronegative and cesium is least electronegative