Chemistry Homework!!

12/13/01, 12/14/01

Read Section 6-4, 6-5 and answer the following questions:

Answer the questions below:

1) Describe the Boron group’s electron configurations and what they do with their electrons.

2) What did Charles Hill do with aluminum?

3) Where is most of the earth’s carbon found? What are hydrocarbons? What are hydrocarbons a major component of?

4) Discuss silicon. Discuss the carbon families electron configurations and what do they do with their electrons.

5) How many valence electrons does the Nitrogen group have? Where is the majority of Nitrogen found? Where do we use nitrogen?

5) Why is phosphorus so important?

6) How many valence electrons do the elements in the oxygen group have? How abundant and where is oxygen found on earth?

7) What is ozone?

8) Why is sulfur so stinky? What is sulfuric acid?

9) How do all halogens exist in elemental form and why? Halogens react with mostly with?

10) Describe the industrial uses of Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine.

11) How many valence electrons do the noble gases have? Why are they inert? What is inert? Why is helium commercially important?

6-5……

12) Why is hydrogen one of a KIND? What do we use hydrogen for commercially?