Inorganic chemistry trivia

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• What is the formula of the molecule the element oxygen chiefly forms at room temperature?Inorganic chemistry
• Which family of elements sits in group 1 of the periodic table and reacts violently with water?Inorganic chemistry
• What is the chemical symbol for sodium?Inorganic chemistry
• Which of the following is a non-metal element?Inorganic chemistry
• Which gas is lighter than air and of low reactivity, so it is used in balloons?Inorganic chemistry
• Which metal is chiefly used to make electrical wire?Inorganic chemistry
• Which is a fitting way to reduce the rusting of iron?Inorganic chemistry
• Which group of the periodic table do the noble gases belong to?Inorganic chemistry
• Which ion is made when a magnesium atom loses two electrons?Inorganic chemistry
• What is the force that binds the sodium ion and the chloride ion together in sodium chloride (NaCl)?Inorganic chemistry
• In a compound that carries no charge, the oxidation numbers of all its atoms add up to zero.Inorganic chemistry
• The process in which a metal atom loses electrons and becomes a positive ion is oxidation.Inorganic chemistry
• In electrolysis, positive ions move to the anode.Inorganic chemistry
• Helium is an element that belongs to the noble gases.Inorganic chemistry
• Most metals are insulators that hardly carry electricity at all.Inorganic chemistry
• An ionic compound is held together by the pull between positive and negative ions.Inorganic chemistry
• Every element is a metal.Inorganic chemistry
• Every metal is a solid at room temperature.Inorganic chemistry
• An ionic bond can form through the attraction between positive and negative ions made when electrons move across.Inorganic chemistry
• The noble gases have an unstable electron arrangement and so react very readily with other elements.Inorganic chemistry