Tuesday, September 26, 2017

inorganic chemistry - Melting and boiling points of transition elements


The melting and boiling points of transition elements increases from scandium ($1530~\mathrm{^\circ C}$) to vanadium ($1917~\mathrm{^\circ C}$). They increase because as we go across the group, we have more unpaired (free) electrons.



But at chromium ($1890~\mathrm{^\circ C}$) however, the melting point decreases even though it has more unpaired electrons than the previous atoms. Why does this happen?




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