Description
Your initial post in the discussion this week consists of two parts. First, choose a molecule used in healthcare, industry, or found in a natural source and discuss the importance of this molecule. Be sure to include at least one outside source and make sure to follow APA citation guidelines.
The electron configuration of an atom determines the number of electrons available to participate in bonding with another atom. One method of depicting the valence electrons that an atom has is through the Lewis structure. For the second part of your initial post, pick an element from the periodic table of elements. Identify the valence electrons and the orbitals in which they reside.
Use your own words and 2 scholarly sources.
reply to this discussion answering each of the following questions:
answer each of the following questions:
How many unpaired electrons are present?
How many covalent bonds could this element make?
Could this element participate in a double or triple bond? Why or why not?
Discussion post to reply too:
For this weeks discussion I am choosing option 2 and my molecule is O2. This molecule is used in everyday life as we need it to breathe. O2 is two atoms of oxygen together that make a odorless, colorless gas (World Health Organization, 2021). In some case when someone has trouble breathing due to respiratory diseases medicinal oxygen is used. When the human body is unable to receive enough oxygen to the cells to keep the organs working, the blood oxygen levels drop causing organ damage or in some cases organ failure (Cleveland Clinic, 2022).
For the second part of this discussion I pick the element Sulfur (S). Sulfur has a electron configuration of 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p4, or [Ne] 3s2 3p4. The number of valence electrons would be 6 which reside in the 3s and 3p orbitals.
