Periodicity Videos

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Overview: Electron Structure 2

This is an overview of Topic 7: Electron Structure 2. It includes the repeating patterns across a period, ionisation energy and the factors that affect it and successive ionisation energy.

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Ionisation Energy

Video explaining ionisation energy using oxygen’s 8 ionisation energies.

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Explaining Successive Ionisation Energies

Video explaining the reason why ionisation energy increases after each succession and the information you can get from successive ionisation energies.

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Periodicity

This video explains what periodicity and outlines the difference of observations seen in groups and periods of the periodic table.

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Periodic Patterns in First Ionisation Energies 1

This video explains what first ionisation energy is and the repeating pattern down groups of the periodic table involving first ionisation energy.

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Periodic Patterns in First Ionisation Energies 2

This video looks at the trend across period 2 of the first ionisation energies and explains discrepancies across the period.

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Periodic Patterns in Melting Points across Period 3

This video explains the trend of melting/boiling points across period 3.

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