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Which has a more pronounced ionic character FeCl2 or FeCl3? Fe+6 is ionic or has a more pronounced covalent character?

Answer 1

This is a hard proposition to address...

You got #Fe^(2+)# versus #Fe^(3+)#, #d^6# versus #d^5#... Ferric ion SHOULD be more Lewis acidic...and SHOULD give rise to more ionic character. But it is hard to think of a metric that would demonstrate the greater ionic character of ferric ion conclusively. Let us know the answer you get.

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When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.

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