Analysis of the Oxygen Group on the Periodic Table

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I plan to educate those who read this paper on what they might not know of a few of our elements. I will tell you what I have learned over the oxygen group on the elemental table. I will talk about Oxygen, Sulfur, Selenium, Tellurium, and last but not least Polonium. These elements have changed our way of life and history in ways you might not know. We are surrounded by these elements in our daily life and they make us the way we are. I hope to teach you and answer some questions about these elements in this informant paper.
On the periodic table there are many groups that classified on it. The oxygen group is a very important group for life to exist at all. The oxygen group is the sixteenth group on the periodic table. There are five elements in the Oxygen group and they are: oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium, and polonium. They each follow the octet rule (they want eight electrons in there outer shell). They each only have six in their outer shell, so they will want to get two more by gaining two electrons. They can share the electrons buy having a covalent bond. A covalent bod is when two or more atoms come together to share electrons. Also another name for the Oxygen group is the chalcogens.
Electron configuration
 Oxygen: 1s2 2s2 2p4
 Sulfur: 1s2 2s2p6 3s2p4
 Selenium: 1s2 2s2p6 3s2p6d10 4s2p4
 Tellurium: 1s2 2s2p6 3s2p6d10 4s2p6d10 5s2p4
 Polonium: 1s2 2s2p6 3s2p6d10 4s2p6d14 5s2p6 d10 6s2p4

Oxygen is the first element on the Oxygen group. That is why the name of the group is named the Oxygen group. It has eight electrons total. It has six in its outer electron cloud. According to the octet rule, the oxygen will want to gain two more electrons to fill its outer shell with eight. Oxygen is also one of th...

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...y years. Could you imagine there not being an oxygen group. Well actually you couldn’t do to any sulfur on earth to form a lot of the land in the soil. Another important element needed is oxygen. All life needs it to survive.
The oxygen group has at least one thing in common. They all have six electrons in their outer shell. They want to collect two more electrons to stay in the octant rule. They want to have eight electrons in their outer shell. They can be very reactive to collect their needed two elements. Oxygen is needed in fire. Sulfur and heat can cause a toxic fume. Selenium, tellurium, and polonium are all radioactive or poisonous when in air.
I hope I have educated you and answered some questions. I have written as much information as I could find on these life crucial elements. These elements are very important and crucial to our life.

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