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Period should read GROUP, my mistake. I can't find an edit button for some reason - I believe it was here the last time I asked a question. Excuse my mistake if I've simply missed it.

I forgot to mention that I was talking about the outtermost electrons. The simplified method I'm using is talked about here: http://dl.clackamas.cc.or.us/ch104-06/efffective_nuclear_charge.htm I don't go to college there but it has the same method I was using/taught. I'm not very far in...

I did mean down. I guess what I mean is this: people have generally taught, in my experience, that when going down there is no change in nuclear charge. For example, with Hydrogen and Potassium since Hydrogen has 1 proton and 1 electron with no shielding inbetween I could say it has an effective...

1) I don't generally have problems with hybridization but when I happened to look at https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=282170 I saw something that confused me. Poopcaboose said: "Hybrid orbitals work only when bonds are made, they only require the s and p orbitals since the d...

Aha! I knew it was something dumb I was thinking. Now I understand that, too. Thanks for the help, much calmer in my head now that I get it.

I still seem to be missing something...My thought process is that Nitrate has a net -1 charge by itself. When you say they detach into H+ NO3- I guess that means the hydrogen was initially a cation before the nitric acid was formed? If so, I understand it now and my main confusion then would be...

What I meant is that since the polyatomic ions have negative charges, how do they covalently bond with hydrogen to become neutral? The hydrogens would have to be already be cations when they bond? With the Nitrate question I was referring to the Nitrate polyatomic ion NO3-1. When it forms an...

I'm extremely confused in regards to many aspects concerning polyatomic ions. For one, am I correct in thinking that covalent polyatomic ions gain charges by having components dissociated? Ex. A and B are sharing an electron, A has a significantly greater hold, B is dissociated by something...