Tag: Periodic table of ions

3.11 Ions in liquid solutions Many liquid substances undergo a process whereby their constituent molecules split into positively and negatively charged ion pairs, the positively-charge ion called a cation and the negatively-charged ion called an anion37 . Liquid ionic compounds38 split into ions completely or nearly completely, while only a small percentage of the molecules in a liquid covalent compound39 split into ions. The process of…