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Of the metals Pb Hg Na and Mg which will not spontaneously donate electrons to copper in solution?
Hg will not spontaneously donate electrons to copper.
Do metals receive electrons while forming their compounds?
Metals are more likely to donate electrons to form ionic compounds. However, some transition metals such as mercury and tin can form covalent bonds in which the metal shares an electron with another atom
What metals react with other metals what happens to the valence electrons of the metal atoms?
== == When metals react with other elements, the atoms of the metals give up their valence electrons.
What are some characteristics of transitional metals?
Their last two shells are incompletely filled. They are metallic in nature, i.e., they donate their valence electrons in a reaction.
Can transition metals donate all of their electrons?
No, but some of them can donate all their valence electrons. Let us take a ridiculous example. Copper is [Ar]4s2d9. Donating 11 valence electrons would be energetically impossible. Now Vanadium is different and is [Ar]4s2d3 and so only needs to donate 5 valence electrons. This can be and is done V2O5 is a very stable compound - vanadium pentoxide.
Do metals donate or accept electrons and what do they become?
Metals donate electrons by losing electrons and forming positive ions.
Do nonmetal donate or accept electrons?
If a non-metal combines with a metal, then the metal will donate electrons and the non-metal will accept electrons. An ionic bond is the result to form an ionic compound. If the non-metal combines with another non-metal, then both will share the electrons resulting in the formation of a covalent bond between them. The molecule is known as covalent compound.
Of the metals Pb Hg Na and Mg which will not spontaneously donate electrons to copper in solution?
Hg will not spontaneously donate electrons to copper.
What happens to a electrons in a metallic bond?
An element tries to get the stable electronic configuration of the nearest noble gas. If a metal has 1 or 2 or 3 valent electrons, they donate these valent electrons to the non-metals which are deficient of 1 or 2 or 3 electrons. So the extra electron in metals get transferred to the outermost shell of the non metal.
What types of atoms form cations?
The type of atoms that donate electrons in ionic bonding. Metals and transition metals usually.
What happens when a base is added to a zwitterion?
If is going to donate electrons
What happens when nonmetals and metals react?
metals lose electrons when they react with a non-metal
When metals react with other elements what happens to the valence electrons of the the atoms?
== == When metals react with other elements, the atoms of the metals give up their valence electrons.
When metals react to the other elements what happens to the valence electrons of the metal Atoms?
== == When metals react with other elements, the atoms of the metals give up their valence electrons.
Do metals receive electrons while forming their compounds?
Metals are more likely to donate electrons to form ionic compounds. However, some transition metals such as mercury and tin can form covalent bonds in which the metal shares an electron with another atom
What metals react with other metals what happens to the valence electrons of the metal atoms?
== == When metals react with other elements, the atoms of the metals give up their valence electrons.
When atoms donate and accept electrons?
Donate electrons: oxidation.Accept electrons: reduction.
