4.1 The Periods 4.2 The Groups 4.3 Metals, Nonmetals, Semimetals 4.4 Metallic Bonding 4.5 Octet Rule 4.6 Ions 4.7 Covalent Bonding 4.8 Atomic Size 4.9 Ionic Size 4.10 mp/bp Trends 4.11 Metallic Trend ** More periodic Trends**
When an atom loses an electron to form a cation, or when an atom gains an electron to form an anion, the size of the ion is not the same as the original atom. In this section, we will take a look at how the size of: