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When a fluorine atom has seven electrons in its outer shell is it an ion with a plus or minus charge?
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A fluorine atom that has seven electrons in its outer shell would be neutral. A negatively charged fluoride ion, Fl-, forms when a fluorine atom gains one electron so that it has an octet, or a noble gas configuration of electrons.
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Does fluoride form an ion with a charge of 1?
Fluorine forms a 1- ion because it has 7 electrons in its outer shell, this is not very stable. What is stable is a full outer shell of 8 electrons. So a fluorine atom will take an electron (which carries a 1- charge) from another atom to complete this so-called octet.
How do lithium and fluorine become stable together?
lithium donates the electron in its outer orbital to fluorine which then has a completed outer shell
What happens when sodium reacts with fluorine?
Sodium is a reactive metal since it has "outer shell" electrons that it would like to get rid of. Fluorine, by contrast, is highly electronegative - it badly wants electrons, and will seek those electrons from any other chemical entity that has loosely held electrons. The net result is that sodium has a net negative charge, and fluorine has a net positive charge, and the two elements migrate toward each other in a non-covalent bond known as an ionic bond, wherein they distribute the charge difference between them forming the salt "sodium fluoride."
Why fluorine exist as a diatomic molecule?
Each fluorine atom has 7 electrons in its outer shell, but a setup of 8 outer shell electrons (called an octet) is stable. To get this octet a fluorine atom will form a single covalent bond with another fluorine atom. Each atom give one electron to be shared between the two.
How many valence electronss does each fluorine atom have?
Fluorine is a halogen. All halogens have 7 valence electrons. There are thus 7 valence electrons for Fluorine, 2 in the 2s orbital, and 5 in the 2p orbitals.
How many electrons are in the outer shell of a fluorine and chlorine?
Fluorine and Chlorine are in the 7th group. They have 7 electrons in outer shell.
How many electrons will the fluorine have in its outer shell?
7Fluorine has 7 electrons in the outer level.
Does fluoride form an ion with a charge of 1?
Fluorine forms a 1- ion because it has 7 electrons in its outer shell, this is not very stable. What is stable is a full outer shell of 8 electrons. So a fluorine atom will take an electron (which carries a 1- charge) from another atom to complete this so-called octet.
How many electrons are in the outer shells in fluorine?
1
What has 7 electrons in their outer energy level?
fluorine
How many electrons are there in the outer shell of fluorine?
1
Fluorine has seven electrons in its outer shell?
yes
How do lithium and fluorine become stable together?
lithium donates the electron in its outer orbital to fluorine which then has a completed outer shell
How is the number of valence electrons of a nonmetal related to the charge on the ion the nonmetal?
Nonmetals will undergo chemical reactions that result in a stable electron configuration of 8 electrons in the outer shell. The number of valence electrons tells you have many they have in their outer shell prior to any chemical reaction, and therefore, how many more electrons they need to get a complete set of 8. So for example, oxygen has 6 valence electrons and therefore needs 2 more to have 8, so it will form an ion with a charge of minus two, which is the charge that is carried by the additional two electrons that oxygen will acquire. Chlorine has 7 valence electrons, therefore it needs just one more electron to complete its outer shell, and as an ion will have a charge of minus one. Nitrogen has 5 valence electrons, so it needs 3 more, and will form an ion with a charge of minus three.
What is the difference between a Fluoride ion and a Fluorine atom?
The fluoride atom has 7 electrons in its outer shell (9 in total) but the ion of fluorine has any number of electrons in the outer shell. eg. F+ = the normal fluorine atom but with one less electron.
Why standard reduction potential of fluorine is greater than cl2?
Fluorine and chlorine both need to gain electrons in order to achieve a stable electron configuration of 8 electrons in their outer shell, but fluorine is the smaller atom. As atoms get larger, their ability to attract electrons is reduced and they become more metallic in nature and less nonmetallic, because the outer shells of the electrons are farther from the positively charged nucleus, and even though the nucleus of larger atoms also has a larger positive charge, the increase in charge has less effect than the increase in distance, because charge is a direct proportionality and distance is an inversely squared proportionality. Distance matters more. So fluorine has the greater attraction for electrons, or as you put it, it has the greater reduction potential.
How many electrons are in a fluorine ion?
in a normal F- ion there are 10 electrons total (but 8 in the outer energy level)
