Tutoring high school chemistry, ionic compounds are fundamental. We’ll discuss how to write their formulas when radicals and involved. In my Oct 20 post about the periodic table and ionic compounds, I mentioned the issue of metal vs nonmetal. As I described …
When you tutor high school chemistry, these basics come up every year. Let’s sort them out. From the high school chemistry point of view, there are two types compounds: ionic and covalent. Ionic names start with a metal; covalent names contain only nonmetals. What …
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Tutoring high school chemistry, isotopes are an early topic. Let’s have a look…. From basic atomic structure, we know that an atom’s mass comes from its number of protons plus its number of neutrons. Take fluorine, for example: its mass is 19. It’s …