Professor Dave Explains
Complex Ion Formation
Most transition metal cations can do something interesting in solution, they can interact with specific ligands to form complex ions. These coordinate covalent bonds are new territory, so let's get a mini introduction to inorganic...
Mazz Media
Naming Ionic Compounds
This video begins with an example of a simple ionic compound, salt, showing a model and then its chemical name. The video continues with an example of a divalent metal and discusses the oxidation number of the elements in these compounds...
Professor Dave Explains
Periodic Table Part 4: Boron Group (B, Al, Ga, In, Tl, Nh)
It's time to check out Group 13 on the periodic table, the boron group. This includes boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, thallium, and nihonium. What can we say about their properties, reactivities, and applications? Let's find out!
Learning Games Lab
Cation Exchange
Understanding soil composition requires an understanding of chemical bonding. An informative video lesson shows learners how the atoms and molecules in the soil form ions that attract and repel other atoms and molecules. The...
Learning Games Lab
Properties of Soil
How do the different types of soil allow water to flow? Scholars compare flocculated and dispersed soils and their ability to move water through the soil. Silt, sand, and clay particles clump together and create large pores in the soil...
Socratica
Chemistry: What Is an Ionic Bond?
Teach your class all they want to know about ionic bonds. An engaging video, part of the Socratica "Chemistry Lessons" playlist, explains what ionic bonds are and how they form. It describes multiple examples of ionic bonds and...
JFR Science
Acid Strength: What Does pH Mean?
What makes one acid stronger than another? Pupils peruse the property of pH through a video from the JFR Science playlist. The narrator explains what is meant by a neutral pH, what that looks like from a chemical standpoint, and how...
JFR Science
Periodic Trends: Why Can't I Get Any Francium?
We are family! Why are elements in the same group so similar in many ways? Science scholars explore the relationship between valence electrons and an element's characteristics through a video from the JFR Science playlist. The narrator...
Teacher's Pet
Ionic Bond and Ionic Compounds
It's true! Opposites do attract! A straightforward video lesson explains the basics of ionic bonding. Using visual models, the instructor describes the repeating patterns in an ionic compound. She also explains how a formula unit simply...
Teacher's Pet
Naming and Writing Ionic Formulas
Explore the process of writing and naming ionic formulas and compounds. Pupils learn to build ionic compounds by analyzing their charges. The instructor then explains how to name the newly created compound.
Teacher's Pet
Monoatomic and Polyatomic Ions
Investigate the ions of the atomic world. By referencing the periodic table, the video instructor describes the different charges of monoatomic ions and references both their stock and classical names. She then defines polyatomic ions...
Teacher's Pet
Atoms
Discover the relationship between mass number, atomic number, and the makeup of the atom. The video instructor explains how to determine the number of each subatomic particle from the atomic and mass number. She demonstrates multiple...
Fuse School
What are Ions?
Add a charge to your classes with a lesson on ions! The video instructor describes the formation of ions through an analysis of the electron configuration. Scholars learn the configuration and the notation related to ions.
Fuse School
Making Hard Water Soft
We need softened water to easily clean our homes, our clothes, and our bodies ... but how do you soften hard water? Part six of a 7-video series exploring the world's water resources and issues shows the two most common methods of...
Fuse School
Plasma: The Fourth State of Matter
So, what's the big deal about plasma? Part two of a 14-part series of videos about solids, liquids, and gases helps scholars gain understanding of this important fourth state of matter. The video describes how a gas becomes plasma, how...
Fuse School
Testing for the Positive Ions (Part 2)
How can you tell the difference between chemical compounds, when so many of them are white and powdery? The fifth installment in a series of ten videos exposes learners to flame tests and formation of insoluble compounds as methods...
Fuse School
Neutralisation of Alkalis
Alkalis and how to neutralize them through titrations are the focus of a video that also explains why this process is important in a modern society.
Fuse School
What Makes Things Alkali?
Begin with what an alkali is and how they are formed through ionic compounds. It discusses pH testing and the properties of bases. The video covers three different theories and the way they react.
Crash Course
How To Speak Chemistrian
Learning how scientists named chemicals can be as challenging as learning a foreign language! Chances are, you've used these names at least once or twice in class. From the video, learn how chemical compounds earn their names — no...
Crash Course
Precipitation Reactions
Two plus two is four, but how can two liquids come together and form one solid? Learn how ions can mix in solutions and fall out to form a solid in precipitation reactions through discussion and analysis of cations, anions, and...
Crash Course
Water and Solutions - for Dirty Laundry
The Earth is over 70% water and so are our bodies. What makes water so special? Learn about water and its properties as it relates to solutions, dilutions, electrolytes, and molarity.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Periodic Table Transition Metals
an explanation of the electron configuration of the transition metals on the Periodic Table. [5:33]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ionization Energy Trends
Learn how cations and anions are formed by gaining or losing electrons. Ionization energy relates to the ability of an electron to leave or join an atom.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Formal Charge and Dot Structures
An introduction of formal charge and how it may affect the stabilization of dot structures. [11:30]