Here are today’s CHM 110 notes for sections 1 and 2.  These notes discuss the periodic table:  groups, periods, metals, nonmetals, and metalloids.  Then, the notes discuss characteristics of molecular and ionic compounds, and how to predict the charge on (most) main-group ions.

[CHM 110 01-02: 2/1/2011 notes]

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