Which salt would have the greatest lattice enthalpy: #"a. barium hydroxide; b. beryllium hydroxide; c. calcium hydroxide; d. lithium hydroxide?"#

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anor277
Nov 4, 2017

Well you got divalent metal ions....save for the last option...

Explanation:

And we would ASSUME that the greatest ionic interaction (and thus the greatest lattice enthalpy) would occur with the smallest metal ion. And, clearly, this is #Be^(2+)#....and so we would predict that #Be(OH)_2# has the greatest lattice energy.....

And note that a scientist interrogates data....I cannot find any except in my text....

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