Okay I final exam on Friday and I need help with both understanding and solving these problems so can someone please help me because I truly am trying to understand how to address and arrive to an answer for these questions.
1) choose the species with the highest first ionization:
Na+ or Ne.....The book says that the answers is Ne but why I don't understand??
another had the same question but with these three options C,N, Si....the answer was N but why? Isn't ionization about how hard it is to pull an electron out of the orbital so why wouldn't it be carbon it has a p orbital just like N??
also how do you find the element with the highest second ionization energy??
2)find the answer with the largest atomic radius
S or S-2...the answer was S-2 but I don't understand why, I thought atomic radius increase from right to left so why is S-2 bigger??
I would really appreciate the help and I thank you very much in advance
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