Question

Molecular formula of a certain ionic compound is XY2 and X is a metal. State group to which elements X and Y belong to in the periodic table. Please help me solve this

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

It is given that compound is XY2 and X is metal. This shows that valency of X is +2 and that of Y is -1. Therefore, Metal X belongs to 2nd group and Y belong to 17th group.

Answer 2

It is given that compound is XY2 and X is metal. This shows that valency of X is +2 and that of Y is -1. Therefore, Metal X belongs to 2nd group and Y belong to 17th group.

Explanation:

2nd group elements:

Group 2A (or IIA) of the periodic table are the alkaline earth metals:  beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), and radium (Ra).  They are harder and less reactive than the alkali metals of Group 1A.  The name comes from the fact that the oxides of these metals produced basic solutions when dissolved in water, and they remained solids at the temperatures available to the ancient alchemists.  Like the Group 1A elements, the alkaline earth metals are too reactive to be found in nature in their elemental form.

The alkaline earth metals have two valence electrons in their highest-energy orbitals (ns2). They are smaller than the alkali metals of the same period, and therefore have higher ionization energies.  In most cases, the alkaline earth metals are ionized to form a 2+ charge.

The alkaline earth metals have much higher melting points than the alkali metals: beryllium melts at 1287ºC, magnesium at 649ºC, calcium at 839ºC, strontium at 768ºC, barium at 727ºC, and radium at 700ºC.  They are harder metals than the Group 1A elements, but are soft and lightweight compared to many of the transition metals.

17th group elements:

halogen, any of the six nonmetallic elements that constitute Group 17 (Group VIIa) of the periodic table. The halogen elements are fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), astatine (At), and tennessine (Ts). They were given the name halogen, from the Greek roots hal- (“salt”) and -gen (“to produce”), because they all produce sodium salts of similar properties, of which sodium chloride—table salt, or halite—is best known.

Because of their great reactivity, the free halogen elements are not found in nature. In combined form, fluorine is the most abundant of the halogens in Earth’s crust. The percentages of the halogens in the igneous rocks of Earth’s crust are 0.06 fluorine, 0.031 chlorine, 0.00016 bromine, and 0.00003 iodine. Astatine and tennessine do not occur in nature, because they consist of only short-lived radioactive isotopes.

The halogen elements show great resemblances to one another in their general chemical behaviour and in the properties of their compounds with other elements. There is, however, a progressive change in properties from fluorine through chlorine, bromine, and iodine to astatine—the difference between two successive elements being most pronounced with fluorine and chlorine. Fluorine is the most reactive of the halogens and, in fact, of all elements, and it has certain other properties that set it apart from the other halogens.

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