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GENERAL PROPERTIES OF GROUP VI ELEMENT

Group VI elements usually called the oxygen family have the following properties

  1. They are made up of oxygen (O), sulphur (S), Selenium (Se) Tellurium (Te) and Polonium (Po)
  2. Oxygen gas is the first member of the group
  3. Sulphur comes as the second member of the group and it is a solid, followed by other members.
  4. They have six valence electrons.
  5. They gain two electrons usually from group I and II metals to attain octet structure or form negative divalent ions e.g. S2, O2
  6. They form covalent compounds with non-metals e.g. H—–O—–H in water and H—–S—–H, hydrogen sulphide
  7. Their oxidation states range from -2 in its compounds except peroxides like H2O2 and K2O2 where oxygent has -1

ELECTRON STRUCTURE OF SULPHUR

Sulphur is represented with a symbol S, it has 16 atomic numbers. The electronic configuration is 2, 8,6. It is a P block element.

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