Percent ionic character calculator

Percent ionic character

Electronegativty Table
Actinium
Silver
Aluminum
Americium
Argon
Arsenic
Astatine
Gold
Boron
Barium
Beryllium
Bismuth
Berkelium
Bromine
Carbon
Calcium
Cadmium
Cerium
Californium
Chlorine
Curium
Cobalt
Chromium
Cesium
Copper
Dysprosium
Erbium
Einsteinium
Europium
Fluorine
Iron
Fermium
Francium
Gallium
Gadolinium
Germanium
Hydrogen
Hafnium
Mercury
Holmium

Written
Revised

EN
2.20
2.66
0.46
5.15 %

Ac
Ag
Al
Am
Ar
As
At
Au
B
Ba
Be
Bi
Bk
Br
C
Ca
Cd
Ce
Cf
Cl
Cm
Co
Cr
Cs
Cu
Dy
Er
Es
Eu
F
Fe
Fm
Fr
Ga
Gd
Ge
H
Hf
Hg
Ho

1.10
1.93
1.61
1.30
None
2.18
2.20
2.54
2.04
0.89
1.57
2.02
1.30
2.96
2.55
1.00
1.69
1.12
1.30
3.16
1.30
1.88
1.66
0.79
1.90
1.22
1.24
1.30
1.20
3.98
1.83
1.30
0.70
1.81
1.20
2.01
2.20
1.30
2.00
1.23

12/16/2010
6/14/2011

Percent Ionic Characater Calculator

This spreadsheet will compute the
percent ionic character of a covalent
bond using the Pauling equation.
Enter the symbols of the elements
forming the bond in the appropriate
cells. The spreadsheet will look up the
electronegativities and do the
calculations.

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Percent ionic character

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Electronegativity difference

Symbol
H
I

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1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8

Electronegativity differe

Iodine
Indium
Iridium
Potassium
Krypton
Lanthanum
Lithium
Lawrencium
Lutetium
Mendelevium
Magnesium
Manganese
Molybdenum
Nitrogen
Sodium
Niobium
Neodymium
Neon
Nickel
Nobelium
Neptunium
Oxygen
Osmium
Phosphorus
Protactinium
Lead
Palladium
Promethium
Polonium
Praseodymium
Platinum
Plutonium
Radium
Rubidium
Rhenium
Rhodium
Radon
Ruthenium
Sulfur
Antimony
Scandium
Selenium
Silicon
Samarium
Tin
Strontium
Tantalum
Terbium
Technetium
Tellurium
Thorium

I
In
Ir
K
Kr
La
Li
Lr
Lu
Md
Mg
Mn
Mo
N
Na
Nb
Nd
Ne
Ni
No
Np
O
Os
P
Pa
Pb
Pd
Pm
Po
Pr
Pt
Pu
Ra
Rb
Re
Rh
Rn
Ru
S
Sb
Sc
Se
Si
Sm
Sn
Sr
Ta
Tb
Tc
Te
Th

2.66
1.78
2.20
0.82
3.00
1.10
0.98
1.30
1.27
1.30
1.31
1.55
2.16
3.04
0.93
1.60
1.14
None
1.91
1.30
1.36
3.44
2.20
2.19
1.50
2.33
2.20
1.13
2.00
1.13
2.28
1.28
0.90
0.82
1.90
2.28
None
2.20
2.58
2.05
1.36
2.55
1.90
1.17
1.96
0.95
1.50
1.20
1.90
2.10
1.30

Titanium
Thallium
Thulium
Uranium
Vanadium
Tungsten
Xenon
Yttrium
Ytterbium
Zinc
Zirconium

Ti
Tl
Tm
U
V
W
Xe
Y
Yb
Zn
Zr

1.54
2.04
1.25
1.38
1.63
2.36
2.60
1.22
1.10
1.65
1.33

Electronegativities from http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/electronegativity.html

EN Dif
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0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
2
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4

%IC
0.00
0.25
1.00
2.22
3.92
6.06
8.61
11.53
14.79
18.33
22.12
26.10
30.23
34.46
38.74
43.02
47.27
51.45
55.51
59.44
63.21
66.80
70.18
73.35
76.31
79.04
81.55
83.84
85.91
87.78
89.46
90.95
92.27
93.43
94.44

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Electronegativity difference

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